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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. Centre of the Stage; R.C. Right Centre of the Stage; +L.C. 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"> </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, &c., &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"> </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 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.</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,—</p> + +<div class = "poem"> +<p>“O God, 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?—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 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 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—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. 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 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.</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—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.</p> + +<p>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.</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>—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.—There is no bar</p> +<p>To make against your highness’ claim to France</p> +<p>But this, which they produce from Pharamond,—</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,—</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,—</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,—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,—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.—</p> +<p>Convey them with safe conduct.—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>—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.—</p> +<p>Bardolph, be blithe;—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 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 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.</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.—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>—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 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.</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—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">——</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— “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 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:— <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 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.</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.” —<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">——</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!—model to thy inward greatness,</p> +<p>Like little body with a mighty heart,—</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,—</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,—</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,—</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>—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,—</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,—and my kind lord of Masham,—</p> +<p>And you, my gentle knight,—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?—We’ll yet enlarge that man,</p> +<p>Though Cambridge, Scroop, and Grey,—in their dear care</p> +<p>And tender preservation of our person,—</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;—</p> +<p>There yours, lord Scroop of Masham;—and, sir knight,</p> +<p>Grey of Northumberland, this same is yours:—</p> +<p>Read them; and know, I know your worthiness.—</p> +<p>My lord of Westmoreland,—and uncle Exeter,—</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?—look ye, how they change!</p> +<p>Their cheeks are paper.—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,—</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,—hath likewise sworn.—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.—Their faults are open:</p> +<p>Arrest them to the answer of the law;—</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,—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>—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>—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 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,—</p> +<p>And you, Prince Dauphin,—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,—on mountain standing,</p> +<p>Up in the air, crown’d with the golden sun,—<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—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">——</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,—</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 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. —<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">——</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,” &c., which begins “<i>Bedfellow</i>, after my most +hasté recommendation.” —<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. +—<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. —<i>Nares.</i></p> + +<p>(<a class = "hist" name = "noteII_B" id = "noteII_B" href = +"#tagII_B">B</a>) <i>For me,—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, &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.”</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:—</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 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.” +—<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:—</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—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—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—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,—</p> +<p>The winter coming on, and sickness growing</p> +<p>Upon our soldiers,—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>—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—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.—</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,—you have power enough,—</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.—</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.—</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>—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,—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—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,—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,—<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:—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 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 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;—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.</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 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 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:—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—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,—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.—Forgive me, Heaven,</p> +<p>That I do brag thus!—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 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— “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. —<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 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,—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—they have only +stomachs to eat, and none to fight. Now is it time to arm: Come, shall +we about it?</p> + +<p><i>Dau.</i> It is now two o’clock: but, let me see,—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—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—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>—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.—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—now lie I like a king.</p> +</div> + +<div class = "verse"> +<p><i>K. Hen.</i> Lend me thy cloak, Sir Thomas.—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 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.—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 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 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 think he would not wish +himself any where but where he 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 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—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 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:—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 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 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 will take thee a box on the ear.</p> + +<p><i>K. Hen.</i> If ever I live to see it, I will +challenge 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!—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!—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—</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>—THE FRENCH +CAMP—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.—</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>—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,—my noble lord of Bedford,—</p> + +<p class = "stagedir"> +Crosses to <span class = "smallroman">L.</span></p> + +<p>My dear lord Gloster,—and my good lord Exeter,—</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?—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—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—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,—</p> +<p>Harry the King, Bedford and Exeter,</p> +<p>Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury and Gloster,—(<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 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:—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—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:—</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>—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>—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>—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.—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:—<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,—<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 it!—</p> +<p>What is this castle call’d that stands hard by?</p> +</div> + +<p><i>Mont.</i> They call it—Agincourt.</p> + +<div class = "verse"> +<p><i>K. Hen.</i> Then call we this—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 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 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.</p> + +<div class = "verse"> +<p><i>K. Hen.</i> Heaven keep me so!—Our herald go with him:</p> +<p>Bring me just notice of the numbers dead</p> +<p>On both our parts.—</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 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.</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 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.</p> + +<p><i>Flu.</i> 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.</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,—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.—</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>—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 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 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 warrant you.</p> + +<p><i>Will.</i> I am no traitor.</p> + +<p><i>Flu.</i> 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.</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 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 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.</p> + +<p><i>Flu.</i> 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.</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 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.</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.—(<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.—Give him the crowns:—</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.—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.</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 warrant you, or I will +change 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—princes, barons, lords, knights, ’squires,</p> +<p>And gentlemen of blood and quality.</p> +<p>Here was a royal fellowship of death!——(<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?—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. —<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 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:— “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.”</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 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 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. —<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. —<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.’” —<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:— “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.” —<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—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:— “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 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.” —<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. —<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. —<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!—</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, +&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. +—<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—<i>In exitu Israel de Egypto</i>; and commanding every man +to kneel down on the ground at this verse—<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,—</p> +<p>Like to the senators of the antique Rome,</p> +<p>With the plebeians swarming at their heels,—</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:—</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’—(‘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 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 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>—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 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.</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.—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 would +desire you to eat 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 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 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.—Pite, I 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——</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 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 pray you, mock at them; that is +all.</p> + +<p><i>Pist.</i> Good.</p> + +<p><i>Flu.</i> Ay, leeks is goot:—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,—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<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>—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, &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,—and to our sister,</p> +<span class = "pagenum">89</span> +<p>Health and fair time of day;—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;—</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:—</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.—Go, uncle Exeter,—</p> +<p>And brother Bedford,—and you, brother Gloster,—</p> +<p>Warwick,—and Huntingdon,—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.—</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 cannot speak votre Anglais.</p> + +<p><i>K. Hen.</i> 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?</p> + +<span class = "pagenum">91</span> +<p><i>Kath.</i> <i>Pardonnez moi,</i> I cannot tell vat +is—like 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 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—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?</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 should quickly leap into a +wife. But, before Heaven, I 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 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<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 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,</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 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 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 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 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<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 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—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?</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—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 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:—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:—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.—</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">——</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 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. —<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"> </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.” —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 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.”</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, &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 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">——</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">——</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">——</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">——</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 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">——</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">——</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 claim which, if shown in its +native and true colours, would appear to be false. —<span class = +"charname">Johnson.</span></p> + +<p><a name = "noteI_7" id = "noteI_7" href = "#tagI_7">I.7</a> +<span class = "dash">——</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">——</span><i>in approbation</i>] i.e., +in proving and supporting that title which shall be now set up.</p> + +<p><a name = "noteI_9" id = "noteI_9" href = "#tagI_9">I.9</a> +<span class = "dash">——</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">——</span><i>gloze</i>] Expound, +explain.</p> + +<p><a name = "noteI_11" id = "noteI_11" href = "#tagI_11">I.11</a> +<span class = "dash">——</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>, &c.</p> + +<p><a name = "noteI_15" id = "noteI_15" href = "#tagI_15">I.15</a> +<span class = "dash">——</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">——</span><i>a nimble <b>galliard</b> +won;</i>] A <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">——</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">——</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">——</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">——</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. —<span class = +"charname">Johnson.</span></p> + +<p><a name = "noteI_22" id = "noteI_22" href = "#tagI_22">I.22</a> +<span class = "dash">——</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—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—conduct +yourself sensibly.</p> + +<p><a name = "noteI_26" id = "noteI_26" href = "#tagI_26">I.26</a> +<span class = "dash">——</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">——</span><i>hold-fast is the only +dog,</i>] Alluding to the proverbial saying— “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">——</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">——</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">——</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">——</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">——</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">——</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">——</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.” —<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">——</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">——</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">——</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, &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">——</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:— “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">——</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">——</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">——</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">——</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. —<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 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. —<span class = +"charname">Malone.</span></p> + +<p><a name = "noteII_12" id = "noteII_12" href = "#tagII_12">II.12</a> +<span class = "dash">——</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">——</span><i>dear offences!—</i>] +<i>To dere</i>, in ancient language, was <i>to hurt</i>; the meaning, +therefore, is hurtful—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">——</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">——</span><i>more than carefully it us +concerns,</i>] <i>More than carefully</i> is <i>with more than common +care</i>; a phrase of the same kind with <i>better than well</i>. +—<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">——</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">——</span><i>crown’d with the golden +sun,—</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. —<span class = "charname">Steevens.</span></p> + +<p><a name = "noteII_21" id = "noteII_21" href = "#tagII_21">II.21</a> +<span class = "dash">——</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">——</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">——</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">——</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">——</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">——</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">——</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,” &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">——</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">——</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">——</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">——</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">——</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">——</span><i>ancient Pistol.</i>] +Ancient, a 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">——</span><i>upon the rolling restless +stone,—</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">——</span><i>with a muffler before her +eyes,</i>] A 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 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—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. —<span class = +"charname">Nares.</span></p> + +<p><a name = "noteIII_12" id = "noteIII_12" href = +"#tagIII_12">III.12</a> +<span class = "dash">——</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">——</span><i>I must speak with him from +the pridge.</i>] <i>From</i> for <i>about</i>—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">——</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">——</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">——</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">——</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">——</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">——</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">——</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">——</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— “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">——</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">——</span><i>you are a better than the +king.</i>] i.e., a 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">——</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:— “<span class = "dash">——</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">——</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">——</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. —<span class = "charname">Johnson.</span></p> + +<p><a name = "noteIV_8" id = "noteIV_8" href = "#tagIV_8">IV.8</a> +<span class = "dash">——</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. —<span class = "charname">Holinshed.</span></p> + +<p><a name = "noteIV_9" id = "noteIV_9" href = "#tagIV_9">IV.9</a> +<span class = "dash">——</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">——</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">——</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">——</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">——</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">——</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. —<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. —<span class = +"charname">Johnson.</span></p> + +<p><a name = "noteIV_21" id = "noteIV_21" href = "#tagIV_21">IV.21</a> +<span class = "dash">——</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 think, these last were +allowed the chief seats of honour at all feasts and publick meetings. +—<span class = "charname">Tollet.</span>]</p> + +<p><a name = "noteIV_22" id = "noteIV_22" href = "#tagIV_22">IV.22</a> +<span class = "dash">——</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 me.</p> + +<p><a name = "noteIV_24" id = "noteIV_24" href = "#tagIV_24">IV.24</a> +<span class = "dash">——</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">——</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">——</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">——</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">——</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">——</span><i>quite from the answer of +his degree.</i>] A 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">——</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>. —<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, &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">——</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">——</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">——</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">——</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">——</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">——</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 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">——</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">——</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">——</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">——</span><i>a good leg will fall,</i>] +i.e., shrink—fall away.</p> + +<p><a name = "noteV_14" id = "noteV_14" href = "#tagV_14">V.14</a> +<span class = "dash">——</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">——</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>—</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td>V.1</td> +<td>V.1</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td>V.2</td> +<td>V.2</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td>—</td> +<td>Epilogue (Chorus)</td> +</tr> +</table> + +</div> + + + + + + + + +<pre> + + + + + +End of Project Gutenberg's King Henry the Fifth, by William Shakespeare + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK KING HENRY THE FIFTH *** + +***** This file should be named 22791-h.htm or 22791-h.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.org/2/2/7/9/22791/ + +Produced by Louise Hope, David Starner, Curtis Weyant and +the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at +http://www.pgdp.net + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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