Epilogue

Epilogue

Enter CHORUS.[5430]

Chor. Thus far, with rough and all-unable pen, Our bending author hath pursued the story,[5431] In little room confining mighty men, Mangling by starts the full course of their glory. Small time, but in that small most greatly lived 5 This star of England: Fortune made his sword; By which the world's best garden he achieved, And of it left his son imperial lord.[5432] Henry the Sixth, in infant bands crown'd King Of France and England, did this king succeed; 10 Whose state so many had the managing, That they lost France and made his England bleed:[5433] Which oft our stage hath shown; and, for their sake, In your fair minds let this acceptance take. [Exit.[5434]

FOOTNOTES:

[5295] ACT V. PROLOGUE.] Actus Quintus. Ff. ACT V. SCENE I. Rowe. Theobald continues the scene.

[5296] to those] all those Collier MS.

[5297] of such] Ff. to such Pope. for such Capell.

[5298] there; there] F₁. there; and there being F₂ F₃ F₄.

see] seen awhile Steevens conj.

[5299] with wives] F₂ F₃ F₄. wives F₁. and wives Anon. conj.

[5300] the antique] antique Pope.

[5301] lower but] Edd. (Seymour conj.). lower, but by Ff. low, but Pope.

[5302] As yet] Pass o'er Hanmer. And here Capell.

[5303] Invites the ... home] In thought, the ... home Hanmer. Invites,--the ... home,-- Capell.

[5304] emperor's] emperor Delius (Heath and Mason conj.).

[5305] them; and] them:--But these now We pass in silence over; and Capell.

[5306] SCENE I.] Hanmer. SCENE II. Pope. Johnson would place this scene at the end of Act IV.

France ...] The English Camp in France. Theobald. France. A Court of Guard. Capell.

[5307] Davy's] Davies Ff. David's Rowe.

[5308] asse my] Ff. asse a Rowe (ed. 2). as a Pope.

[5309] yourself] myself Anon. conj.

[5310] not om. Pope.

contention] contentions Pope.

[5311] swellings] swelling F₄.

[5312] pless you] plesse F₃ F₄.

[5313] Ha!... leek] As in Pope. As prose in Ff.

[5314] bedlam] beldam Johnson.

[5315] [taking the Leek from his Cap. Capell.

[5316] nor] and Pope.

[5317] disgestions] Ff. digestions Rowe.

[5318] doo's] F₁ F₂ F₃. does F₄.

[5319] [Strikes him.] Ff.

[5320] [Strikes him] Pope. om. Ff.

[5321] [beating again. Capell.

[5322] days] and four nights (Qq) Pope.

[giving the Leek into his Hand. Capell.

[5323] certainly, and] om. Pope.

question] questions Pope.

[5324] [eating of it. Capell.

[5325] As verse in Dyce. As three lines, ending leek ... I eat ... swear. Capell conj.

I eat and eat, I swear--] I eate and eate I sweare. Ff. I eat and swear-- Pope. I eat and eke I swear. Rann (Johnson conj.). I eat, and eating swear Holt White conj. I eat and-- Flu. Eat! Pist. I swear-- Delius conj. I eat! an I eat. I swear-- Edd. conj.

[5326] 'em] them Capell.

that is] that's Rowe.

[5327] God b' wi'] Capell. God bu'y F₁ F₂. Gud bu'y F₃ F₄. God pe wi' Rowe (ed. 2).

[5328] begun] Capell. began Ff.

[5329] it] 'tis Warburton.

[5330] ye] you Pope.

[5331] Doth ... hand] As verse first by Pope. As prose in Ff.

[5332] Doll] Ff. Nell Capell. See note (XX).

i' the spital] om. Pope.

[5333] malady] Pope. a malady Ff.

France;] France; mine hostess too Farmer conj. MS.

[5334] cudgelled] Collier. cudgeld F₁ F₂. cudgell'd F₃ F₄.

I'll] will I (Qq) Pope.

[5335] cudgell'd] om. (Qq) Pope.

[5336] swear] F₃ F₄. swore F₁ F₂.

[5337] SCENE II.] Hanmer. SCENE III. Pope. ACT V. SCENE I. Johnson conj.

France ...] The same. A Room in some Palace. Capell. The French Court, at Trois in Champaigne. Theobald. Troyes. S. Peter's Church. Delius conj. (from Holinshed).

Gloucester] Malone. om. Ff.

Westmoreland] Capell. om. Ff.

the Princess Katharine,] Malone. the Lady Catharine, Capell.

the Duke of Burgundy and his train.] Capell. the Duke of Burgougne, and other French. Ff (Bourgoigne, F₂. Burgoign, F₃ F₄).

[5338] Burgundy] Rowe. Burgogne F₁. Burgoigne F₂ F₄. Bargoigne F₃.

[5339] fairly] fairely F₁. faire F₂. fair F₃ F₄.

[5340] England] F₂ F₃ F₄. Ireland F₁.

[5341] borne in them Against] F₂ F₃ F₄. borne In them against F₁.

[5342] Have lost their] Hath lost its Long MS.

[5343] I have] I've Pope.

[5344] mightiness ... best can] mightinesses ... best can Rowe. mightinesses ... can Pope.

[5345] put] lift Collier MS.

[5346] its] it's F₃ F₄. it F₁ F₂.

[5347] dies] lyes Theobald (Warburton).

even-pleach'd] Hanmer. even pleach'd F₁ F₂. even, pleach'd F₃ F₄.

[5348] fumitory] F₄. femetary F₁ F₂ F₃.

[5349] Doth] Do Hanmer.

coulter] Johnson. culter Ff.

[5350] all] Rowe (ed. 2). withall Ff.

[5351] kecksies] F₃ F₄. keksyes F₁ F₂.

[5352] as] Capell (Roderick conj.).

[5353] as ... wildness,] Capell (Roderick conj.) all ... wildnesse Ff.

[5354] natures] nurtures Theobald (Warburton).

[5355] grow] gow F₂.

[5356] diffused] diffus'd F₃ F₄. defus'd F₁ F₂.

[5357] Burgundy] Rowe. Burgonie F₁. Burgony F₂ F₃ F₄.

[5358] tenours] Theobald. tenures Ff.

[5359] have] have as yet Hanmer.

cursorary] (Q₂) Pope. curselarie F₁. curselary F₂ F₃ F₄. cursenary (Q₁ Q₂). cursory Hamner.

[5360] us once more, with] us, once more with Rowe.

[5361] Pass our accept] Pass, or accept Theobald (Warburton). Pass, or except Malone conj. Pass our exact Jervis conj.

[5362] and you] F₁. and F₂ F₃ F₄. om. Pope.

[5363] Huntingdon] Huntington Ff.

[5364] advantageable] advantage Collier (Collier MS.).

[5365] Any ... demands] Omitted by Pope.

[5366] Haply] F₄. Happily F₁. Happely F₂ F₃.

[5367] [Exeunt all ...] Exeunt omnes. Manet King and Katharine. Ff. Exeunt. Manet King Henry, Katharine, and a Lady. Rowe (ed. 1). SCENE IV. Pope. SCENE III. Hanmer.

and] om. Pope.

[5368] vat] Rowe. wat Ff.

[5369] the tongues] tongues F₄.

[5370] is de princess] says de princess Mason conj. is de princess say Keightley conj.

[5371] understand] understand not Keightley conj.

[5372] vaulting] F₃ F₄. vawting F₁ F₂.

[5373] no] om. Pope.

[5374] nor] and Pope.

[5375] to thee] thee Rowe. om. Pope.

[5376] by the Lord] by the L. Ff.

[5377] dear] om. Warburton.

[5378] places] paces Anon., apud Dyce, conj.

[5379] would] would'st Rowe.

[5380] take me; and take me, take a soldier; take] take me? and take me; take a souldier: take Ff. take me: take Pope.

[5381] then] thine Capell (corrected in notes and MS.).

[5382] vat] wat Ff. vhat Rowe.

[5383] new-married] married Warburton. See note (XXI).

[5384] Je quand sur] Ff. Quand j'ay Pope. Je dis, quand j'ay Long MS. Je conte sur Anon. conj.

[5385] le ... le] Ff. la ... la Capell. See note (XXII).

[5386] il est] il &c. Ff. est Pope.

meilleur] Hanmer. melieus F₁ F₂. melius F₃ F₄. melieur Rowe. mellieur Pope.

[5387] thine] of thine Keightley conj.

truly-falsely] Edd. (S. Walker conj.). truly falsely Ff.

[5388] cher et devin] Ff. chere et divine Rowe.

[5389] ave] Ff. have Collier.

[5390] demoiselle] damoiseil F₁ F₂. damoisel F₃ F₄.

[5391] untempering] untempting Warburton.

[5392] with the best king,] with the best kings, Hanmer.

[5393] all, Katharine,] all Catharines, Capell conj.

[5394] sall ... sall] shall ... sall Ff. shall ... shall Rowe.

[5395] d'une de votre seigneurie indigne] Edd. _d'une nostre Seigneur indignie_ Ff. d'une vostre indigne Pope.

[5396] noces] Dyce and Staunton. nopeese Ff.

[5397] vat] wat F₁ F₂ F₃. what F₄.

baiser] Hanmer. buisse Ff. to bassie (Qq). baisser Theobald.

[5398] It is] F₁ F₂. Is it F₃ F₄.

[5399] courtesy] cursie Ff.

[5400] upholding] the upholding Rowe.

[5401] [Kissing her] Rowe.

[5402] sugar] om. Pope.

[5403] Re-enter ...] Enter the French Power, and the English Lords. Ff.

[5404] SCENE V. Pope. SCENE IV. Hanmer.

[5405] As prose in Ff. As two lines, the first ending cousin, in Capell.

[5406] not] F₁ F₂. om. F₃ F₄.

[5407] coz,] om. Pope.

[5408] flattery] hatred Rowe (ed. 2). See note (XXIII).

[5409] rosed] rosy’d Capell.

[5410] winking] F₁. to winking F₂ F₃ F₄.

[5411] for] om. Rowe (ed. 2).

[5412] ties] F₃ F₄ tyes F₁ F₂. turns Capell conj.

[5413] never] Rowe. om. Ff. not Capell.

[5414] for my] of my Heath conj.

[5415] and then in sequel] F₂ F₃ F₄. and in sequele F₁. and in the sequel Keightley conj.

[5416] natures] nature Pope.

[5417] Hèritier] heretere Ff.

[5418] Præclarissimus] Ff. See note (XXIV).

[5419] Nor] Yet Pope.

[5420] me] unto me Keightley conj.

daughter] daughter here S. Walker conj.

[5421] the] these Pope.

[5422] Of France and England] England and France Pope.

[5423] bosoms] breasts Pope.

never] ne'er S. Walker conj.

[5424] All.] Rowe. Lords. Ff.

[5425] paction] Theobald. pation F₁ F₂. passion F₃ F₄.

[5426] That] But Capell.

[5427] All.] Ff.

[5428] peers'] Capell. peers Ff.

[5429] [Sennet.] Senet. F₁. Sonet. F₂ F₃ F₄. sonnet. Rowe. om. Pope. See note (XXV).

[5430] EPILOGUE. Enter Chorus.] Enter Chorus. Ff. Enter Chorus, as Epilogue. Collier (Collier MS.).

[5431] bending] blending Johnson (Warburton conj.).

[5432] lord.] F₁. lord, F₂ F₃ F₄.

[5433] made] F₁. make F₂ F₃ F₄.

[5434] [Exit.] Capell. om. Ff. Exeunt. Staunton.

NOTES.

NOTE I.

DRAMATIS PERSONÆ. In Rowe's list, which remained uncorrected by any editor before Capell, the Duke of Clarence is introduced and the Duke of York is called 'Uncle to the king.' The list we have given differs in a few other unimportant points from that of Rowe.

In the first Folio the title of the play is The Life of Henry the Fift. The second Folio has The Life of King Henry the Fift. In the Folios the play is divided into acts, but not into scenes, although they prefix Actus Primus, Scena Prima, to the first act. The division was first made by Pope.

NOTE II.

Act II. Prologue, 31, 32. Mr Knight says, "The passage is evidently corrupt; and we believe that the two lines were intended to be erased from the author's copy; for 'the abuse of distance' is inapplicable as the lines stand." Mr Keightley proposes to read,

'and we'll digest The abuse of distance as we forge our play.'

We have left the reading of the Folios, as no proposed emendation can be regarded as entirely satisfactory.

NOTE III.

II. 2. 139, 140. Malone misquotes the reading of Pope in this passage, and his error is repeated without correction in subsequent editions. Mr Mitford in the Gentleman's Magazine, Nov. 1844, proposes to read, 'To mark the full-fraught man and least inclined,' &c., quoting 'inclined' as if it were the received text. Perhaps it is a printer's error.

NOTE IV.

II. 2. 176. Mr Collier in a note which has remained uncorrected in his second edition says, "Malone, without any authority from Quartos or Folios, printed 'Whose ruin you three sought.'" The fact is that this is the reading of every Folio, except the first, and of every edition, without exception, which had appeared before Malone's.

NOTE V.

II. 3. 16. Here is Pope's note on this famous passage: 'These words and a table of green fields are not to be found in the old editions of 1600 and 1608. This nonsense got into all the following editions by a pleasant mistake of the Stage-editors, who printed from the common piecemeal-written parts in the Play-house. A Table was here directed to be brought in (it being a scene in a tavern where they drink at parting) and this direction crept into the text from the margin. Greenfield was the name of the Property-man in that time who furnished implements &c. for the actors. A table of Greenfield's.'

Theobald's emendation was suggested, he says, by a marginal conjecture in an edition of Shakespeare 'by a gentleman sometime deceased.' Shakespeare Restored, p. 138.

Mr Spedding approves of talked as being nearer to the ductus literarum, according to the handwriting of the time. The reading talked derives some support from the following passage in the Quartos:

'His nose was as sharpe as a pen: For when I saw him fumble with the sheetes, And talk of floures, and smile vpo his fingers ends I knew there was no way but one.'

NOTE VI.

II. 4. 1. We retain the reading comes which is authorized by the Folios. It is an example of the idiom mentioned in the note to King John, V. 4. 14. So we find in the passage of the first and third Quartos, corresponding to II. 4. 72, 'Cut up this English short,' and again in that corresponding to IV. 3. 69, 'The French is in the field.' See, also, IV. 4. 74.

NOTE VII.

III. 2. 18. The Quartos here read 'breaches,' not 'preaches,' and the Folios 'breach,' not 'preach.' Throughout the speeches of Fluellen the old copies sometimes mark the peculiarity of his pronunciation, by using 'p' for 'b,' and 't' for 'd,' sometimes not; an inconsistency, which Hanmer and others have attempted to correct. As a rule, we have silently followed the first Folio. See Merry Wives of Windsor, Note II. The same will apply to the Scotch of Jamy and the Irish of Macmorris; for these dialects, which could not be represented by the printer, were left to the actor's power of imitation.

Ritson, in his Remarks, p. 108, says, 'In the Folio, it is the duke of Exeter and not Fluellen, who enters and to whom Pistol addresses himself. Shakespeare had made the alteration and the player editors inserted it in the text, but inadvertently, left Fluellen in possession of the margin.' No copy of any Folio with which we are acquainted bears out Ritson's assertion. All have Enter Fluellen, as well as Flu. in the margin. It seems to us that there is some comic humour in making Pistol, almost beside himself with fright, endeavour to propitiate the captain by giving him high sounding titles. The language, too, of the exhortation is more suitable to the choleric Fluellen than to the stately Exeter.

NOTE VIII.

III. 1. 112-114. Mr Knight, at the suggestion of a friend, transposes this passage thus: 'Of my nation? What ish my nation? What ish my nation? Who talks of my nation ish a villain, a bastard, and a knave, and a rascal.' We agree with Mr Staunton's suggestion, that 'the incoherence of the original was designed to mark the impetuosity of the speaker.'

NOTE IX.

III. 3. 32. The editor of the variorum edition of 1803, adopting the emendation 'deadly,' which was really Capell's conjecture, though Malone appropriates it, makes it appear, as if on the authority of Malone, that 'deadly' is the reading of the second Folio. We have left unnoticed many similar errors, which run, uncorrected, through the successive variorum editions.

NOTE X.

III. 4. 1. We content ourselves with a few specimens of the errors and variations of the old copies in this scene. The French was set right, or nearly so, by successive alterations made by Rowe, Pope, Theobald, Warburton, and Capell. Some obvious corrections in the distribution of the dialogue were made by Theobald.

NOTE XI.

III. 5. 1. The stage direction of the Folios is as follows:

Enter the King of France, the Dolphin, the Constable of France, and others. To the speeches which commence lines 10 and 32 they prefix Brit. But as the Duke of 'Britaine' does not appear elsewhere in the play, and as the stage direction of the Quartos runs: Enter King of France, Bourbon, Dolphin, and others, we have followed Theobald in introducing Bourbon among the persons who enter and in assigning the two speeches to him. 'Bourbon,' and not 'Britaine,' is mentioned among the lords in line 41. In Holinshed (p. 1077, ed. 1577), the Dukes of Berry and Britaine are mentioned as belonging to the French king's council, and not the Duke of Bourbon. Shakespeare probably first intended to introduce the Duke of Britaine, and then changed his mind, but forgot to substitute Bour. for Brit. before the two speeches. Rowe omitted to insert the Duke of 'Britaine' in his list of Dramatis Personæ.

NOTE XII.

III. 5. 40. As the metre will not allow us to set Delabreth right by reading D'Albret, we do not see what is gained by substituting De-la-bret, which is as erroneous as the word which Shakespeare copied from Holinshed. The same chronicler afterwards calls him Dalbreth. (Holinshed, ed. 1577, p. 1175 and 1176).

NOTE XIII.

III. 6. 100-106. Pope, following the Quarto to a certain extent, alters the whole passage thus:

'We would have such offenders so cut off, And give express charge that in all our march There shall be nothing taken from the villages But shall be paid for, and no French upbraided Or yet abused in disdainful language; When lenity and cruelty play for kingdoms The gentler gamester is the soonest winner.'

NOTE XIV.

III. 6. 111-128. Pope gives the speech as follows:

'Thus says my King: say thou to Harry England, Although we seemed dead, we did but sleep: Advantage is a better soldier than rashness. Tell him we could at Harfleur have rebuk'd him, But that we thought not good to bruise an injury Till it were ripe. Now speak we on our cue, With voice imperial: England shall repent His folly, see his weakness, and admire Our suff'rance. Bid him therefore to consider What must the ransom be, which must proportion The losses we have born, the subjects we Have lost, and the disgrace we have digested; To answer which, his pettiness would bow under. First for our loss, too poor is his Exchequer; For the effusion of our blood, his army Too faint a number; and for our disgrace, Ev'n his own person kneeling at our feet A weak and worthless satisfaction. To this defiance add; and for conclusion, Tell him he hath betray'd his followers, Whose condemnation is pronounc'd. So far My King and master; and so much my office.'

NOTE XV.

IV. Prol. 45. Theobald's reading of this obscure passage is as follows:

'Then, mean and gentle, all Behold, (as may unworthiness define) A little touch, &c.'

In his note he says: 'The poet, first, expatiates on the real influence that Harry's eye had on the camp: and then addressing himself to every degree of his audience, he tells them, he'll shew (as well as his unworthy pen and powers can describe it) a little touch, or sketch of this hero in the night.'

Hanmer reads,

'Then mean and gentle all Behold, &c.'

Capell, following substantially Theobald, reads,

'Then, mean and gentle all, Behold, &c.'

Theobald supports his reading by two quotations from previous speeches of the chorus (I. prol. 8; II. prol. 35) in which the audience are addressed as 'gentles;' but this does not justify the supposition that he would address any of them as 'mean.' The phrase 'mean and gentle' appears to us to refer to the various ranks of the English army who are mentioned in the previous line. Delius's conjecture that a line is lost after the word 'all' seems very probable.

NOTE XVI.

IV. 1. 274, 275. Theobald says, "The poet might intend, 'Take from them the sense of reckoning those opposed numbers; which might pluck their courage from them.' But the relative not being expressed, the sense is very obscure; and the following verb seems a petition, in the imperative mood."

Perhaps a line has been lost, which, by help of the Quartos, we might supply thus:

'Take from them now The sense of reckoning of the opposed numbers, Lest that the multitudes which stand before them Pluck their hearts from them.'

NOTE XVII.

IV. 2. 60. The conjectural reading, guidon: for guard: on, which we have adopted, and which is attributed by recent editors to Dr Thackeray, late Provost of King's College, Cambridge, is found in Rann's edition, without any name attached. Dr Thackeray probably made the conjecture independently. We find it written in pencil on the margin of his copy of Nares's Glossary, under the word 'Guard.'

NOTE XVIII.

IV. 3. 13, 14. Thirlby's emendation, which indeed seems absolutely to be required by the context, is supported by the corresponding passage in the Quartos:

'Clar. Farewell kind Lord, fight valiantly to day, And yet in truth, I do thee wrong, For thou art made on the true sparkes of honour.'

NOTE XIX.

IV. 3. 52. We retain his mouth, because it gives a very complete sense, and because the authority of the Folio is greatly superior to that of the Quarto. The names of the King, Bedford, &c. were to be familiar as household words in the mouth of the old veteran, that is, spoken of every day, not on one day of the year only. The neighbours, who had no personal recollections connected with those names, were only reminded of them by their host on St Crispin's day.

NOTE XX.

V. 1. 73. Although it appears from line 75, 'And there my rendezvous is quite cut off,' that Capell's emendation is what Shakespeare ought to have written, yet as the reading 'Doll' is found throughout both the Quartos and Folios, it is probable that the mistake is the author's own, and therefore, in accordance with our principle, we have allowed it to remain.

NOTE XXI.

V. 2. 174. Warburton's printer by mistake gave 'married' for 'new-married.' Johnson says: "Every wife is a married wife: I suppose we should read 'new-married,'" which is in fact the reading of every edition before Warburton's. In line 149, he omitted to correct Warburton's misprint of 'Kate' for 'dear Kate.' The Doctor seems to have collated the older editions by fits and starts, with long intervals of laziness.

NOTE XXII.

V. 2. 176. As it is clear that the king is meant to speak bad French, we leave uncorrected what we find in the Folios. His French is much worse in the Quartos. In line 208, most editors, somewhat inconsistently, leave 'mon' for 'ma' while they change 'cher' and 'devin' to 'chère' and 'divine.'

NOTE XXIII.

V. 2. 276. This curious misprint, 'hatred' for 'flattery', escaped the notice of Pope, who repeated it in both his editions. Theobald first pointed it out in his Letters to Warburton, Nichols' Illustrations, Vol. II. p. 429.

NOTE XXIV.

V. 2. 322. Shakespeare copied both French and Latin from Holinshed, where by mistake 'Præclarissimus' is printed for 'Præcharissimus' (p. 1207, ed. 1577). The same error is found in Hall, Henry V. fol. 39 b (ed. 1550).

NOTE XXV.

V. 2. 360. The printer of the second Folio when he misread 'Sonet' for 'Senet,' probably supposed it to be the title of the poem of fourteen lines, which the Chorus speaks, though the position of the word is ambiguous. The printer of the fourth Folio and Rowe place it as if it belonged to the Enter Chorus rather than to the Exeunt. Pope omitted the word altogether, and it did not reappear till Mr Dyce restored it.

The Chronicle Historie

of Henry the fift: with his battel fought

at AginCourt in France. Togither with

Auncient Pistoll.

[Sidenote: [SC. I.]]

Enter King Henry, Exeter, 2. Bishops, Clarence, and other Attendants.

Exeter. Shall I call in Thambassadors my Liege?

King. Not yet my Cousin, til we be resolude Of some serious matters touching vs and France.

Bi. God and his Angels guard your sacred throne, And make you long become it. 5

King. Shure we thank you. And good my Lord proceed[5435] Why the Lawe Salicke which they haue in France, Or should or should not, stop vs in our clayme:[5436] And God forbid my wise and learned Lord, That you should fashion, frame, or wrest the same. 10 For God doth know how many now in health, Shall drop their blood in approbation, Of what your reuerence shall incite vs too. Therefore take heed how you impawne our person, How you awake the sleeping sword of warre: 15 We charge you in the name of God take heed. After this coniuration, speake my Lord: And we will iudge, note, and beleeue in heart, That what you speake, is washt as pure As sin in baptisme. 20

[Bish.

Then heare me gracious soueraigne, and you peeres,[5437] Which owe your liues, your faith and seruices To this imperiall throne. There is no bar to stay your highnesse claime to France But one, which they produce from Faramount, 25 No female shall succeed in salicke land, Which salicke land the French vniustly gloze To be the realme of France: And Faramont the founder of this law and female barre: Yet their owne writers faithfully affirme 30 That the land salicke lyes in Germany, Betweene the flouds of Sabeck and of Elme, Where Charles the fift hauing subdude the Saxons, There left behind, and setled certaine French, Who holding in disdaine the Germaine women, 35 For some dishonest maners of their liues, Establisht there this lawe. To wit, No female shall succeed in salicke land: Which salicke land as I said before,[5438] Is at this time in Germany called Mesene: 40 Thus doth it well appeare the salicke lawe Was not deuised for the realme of France, Nor did the French possesse the salicke land, Vntill 400. one and twentie yeares After the function of king Faramont, 45 Godly supposed the founder of this lawe: Hugh Capet also that vsurpt the crowne, To fine his title with some showe of truth, When in pure truth it was corrupt and naught: Conuaid himselfe as heire to the Lady Inger,[5439] 50 Daughter to Charles, the foresaid Duke of Lorain, So that as cleare as is the sommers Sun, King Pippins title and Hugh Capets claime, King Charles his satisfaction all appeare, To hold in right and title of the female: 55 So do the Lords of France vntil this day, Howbeit they would hold vp this salick lawe To bar your highnesse claiming from the female, And rather choose to hide them in a net, Then amply to imbace their crooked causes,[5440] 60 Vsurpt from you and your progenitors.

K. May we with right & conscience make this claime?

Bi. The sin vpon my head dread soueraigne. For in the booke of Numbers is it writ,[5441] When the sonne dyes, let the inheritance 65 Descend vnto the daughter. Noble Lord stand for your owne, Vnwinde your bloody flagge, Go my dread Lord to your great graunsirs graue,[5442] From whom you clayme: 70 And your great Vncle Edward the blacke Prince, Who on the French ground playd a Tragedy Making defeat on the full power of France, Whilest his most mighty father on a hill, Stood smiling to behold his Lyons whelpe, 75 Foraging blood of French Nobilitie.[5443] O Noble English that could entertaine With halfe their Forces the full power of France: And let an other halfe stand laughing by, All out of worke, and cold for action. 80

King. We must not onely arme vs against the French,[5444] But lay downe our proportion for the Scot,[5445] Who will make rode vpon vs with all aduantages.

Bi. The Marches gracious soueraigne, shalbe sufficient To guard your England from the pilfering borderers. 85

King. We do not meane the coursing sneakers onely, But feare the mayne entendement of the Scot, For you shall read, neuer my great grandfather Vnmaskt his power for France, But that the Scot on his vnfurnisht Kingdome, 90 Came pouring like the Tide into a breach, That England being empty of defences, Hath shooke and trembled at the brute hereof.

Bi. She hath bin then more feared then hurt my Lord: For heare her but examplified by her selfe, 95 When all her chiualry hath bene in France And she a mourning widow of her Nobles, She hath her selfe not only well defended, But taken and impounded as a stray, the king of Scots, Whom like a caytiffe she did leade to France, 100 Filling your Chronicles as rich with praise As is the owse and bottome of the sea With sunken wrack and shiplesse treasurie.

Lord. There is a saying very old and true, If you will France win, 105 Then with Scotland first begin: For once the Eagle, England being in pray, To his vnfurnish nest the weazel Scot[5446] Would suck her egs, playing the mouse in absence of the cat: To spoyle and hauock more then she can eat. 110

Exe. It followes then, the cat must stay at home, Yet that is but a curst necessitie, Since we haue trappes to catch the petty theeues: Whilste that the armed hand doth fight abroad The aduised head controlles at home: 115 For gouernment though high or lowe, being put into parts,[5447] Congrueth with a mutuall consent like musicke.

Bi. True: therefore doth heauen diuide the fate of man in diuers functions. Whereto is added as an ayme or but, obedience: For so liue the honey Bees, creatures that by awe 120 Ordaine an act of order to a peopeld Kingdome: They haue a King and officers of sort, Where some like Magistrates correct at home: Others like Marchants venture trade abroad: Others like souldiers armed in their stings, 125 Make boote vpon the sommers veluet bud: Which pillage they with mery march bring home To the tent royall of their Emperour; Who busied in his maiestie, behold The singing masons building roofes of gold: 130 The ciuell citizens lading vp the honey, The sad eyde Iustice with his surly humme, Deliuering vp to executors pale, the lazy caning Drone. This I infer, that 20. actions once a foote, May all end in one moment. 135 As many Arrowes losed seuerall wayes, flye to one marke: As many seuerall wayes meete in one towne: As many fresh streames run in one selfe sea: As many lines close in the dyall center: So may a thousand actions once a foote, 140 End in one moment, and be all well borne without defect. Therefore my Liege to France, Diuide your happy England into foure, Of which take you one quarter into France, And you withall, shall make all Gallia shake. 145 If we with thrice that power left at home, Cannot defend our owne doore from the dogge, Let vs be beaten, and from henceforth lose The name of pollicy and hardinesse.

Ki. Call in the messenger sent frō the Dolphin. 150 And by your ayde, the noble sinewes of our land, France being ours, weele bring it to our awe, Or breake it all in peeces: Eyther our Chronicles shal with full mouth speak Freely of our acts, 155 Or else like toonglesse mutes Not worshipt with a paper Epitaph:

Enter Thambassadors from France.

Now are we well prepared to know the Dolphins pleasure, For we heare your comming is from him.

Ambassa. Pleaseth your Maiestie to giue vs leaue 160 Freely to render what we haue in charge: Or shall I sparingly shew a farre off, The Dolphins pleasure and our Embassage?

King. We are no tyrant, but a Christian King, To whom our spirit is as subiect, 165 As are our wretches fettered in our prisons. Therefore freely and with vncurbed boldnesse Tell vs the Dolphins minde.

Ambas. Then this in fine the Dolphin saith, Whereas you clayme certaine Townes in France, 170 From your predecessor king Edward the third, This he returnes. He saith, theres nought in France that can be with a nimble Galliard wonne: you cannot reuel into Dukedomes there: Therefore he sendeth meeter for your study, 175 This tunne of treasure: and in lieu of this, Desires to let the Dukedomes that you craue Heare no more from you: This the Dolphin saith.

King. What treasure Vncle?

Exe. Tennis balles my Liege. 180

King. We are glad the Dolphin is so pleasant with vs, Your message and his present we accept: When we haue matched our rackets to these balles, We will by Gods grace play such a set,[5448] Shall strike his fathers crowne into the hazard. 185 Tell him he hath made a match with such a wrangler, That all the Courts of France shall be disturbd with chases. And we vnderstand him well, how he comes ore vs With our wilder dayes, not measuring what vse we made of them. We neuer valued this poore seate of England. 190 And therefore gaue our selues to barbarous licence: As tis common seene that men are merriest when they are from home. But tell the Dolphin we will keepe our state, Be like a King, mightie and commaund, When we do rowse vs in throne of France:[5449] 195 For this haue we laid by our Maiestie:[5450] And plodded lide a man for working dayes.[5451] But we will rise there with so full of glory,[5452] That we will dazell all the eyes of France, I strike the Dolphin blinde to looke on vs, 200 And tell him this, his mock hath turnd his balles to gun stones, And his soule shall sit sore charged for the wastfull vengeance That shall flye from them. For this his mocke Shall mocke many a wife out of their deare husbands. Mocke mothers from their sonnes, mocke Castles downe, 205 I some are yet vngotten and vnborne, That shall haue cause to curse the Dolphins scorne. But this lyes all within the wil of God, to whom we doo appeale, And in whose name tel you the Dolphin we are coming on To venge vs as we may, and to put forth our hand 210 In a rightfull cause: so get you hence, and tell your Prince,[5453] His Iest will sauour but of shallow wit, When thousands weepe, more then did laugh at it. Conuey them with safe conduct: see them hence.

Exe. This was a merry message. 215

King. We hope to make the sender blush at it: Therfore let our collectiō for the wars be soone prouided: For God before, weell check the Dolphin at his fathers doore. Therefore let euery man now taske his thought, That this faire action may on foote be brought. 220

[Exeunt omnes.

[Sidenote: [SC. II.]]

Enter Nim and Bardolfe.

Bar. Godmorrow Corporall Nim.[5454]

Nim. Godmorrow Lieftenant Bardolfe.[5454]

Bar. What is antient Pistoll and thee friends yet?

Nim. I cannot tell, things must be as they may: I dare not fight, but I will winke and hold out mine Iron: 5 It is a simple one, but what tho; it will serue to toste cheese,[5455] And it will endure cold as an other mans sword will, And theres the humor of it.

Bar. Yfaith mistresse quickly did thee great wrong,[5456] For thou weart troth plight to her. 10

Nim. I must do as I may, tho patience be a tyred mare, Yet sheel plod, and some say kniues haue edges, And men may sleepe and haue their throtes about them At that time, and there is the humour of it.

Bar. Come yfaith. Il bestow a breakfast to make Pistoll 15 And thee friendes. What a plague should we carrie kniues To cut our owne throates.

Nim. Yfaith Il liue as long as I may, thats the certaine of it. And when I cannot liue any longer, Il do as I may, And theres my rest, and the randeuous of it. 20

Enter Pistoll and Hostes Quickly, his wife.[5457]

Bar. Godmorrow ancient Pistoll.[5454] Heere comes ancient Pistoll, I prithee Nim be quiet.

Nim. How do you my Hoste?

Pist. Base slaue, callest thou me hoste? Now by gads lugges I sweare, I scorne the title, 25 Nor shall my Nell keepe lodging.

Host. No by my troath not I, For we cānot bed nor boord half a score honest gētlewomē[5458] That liue honestly by the prick of their needle, But it is thought straight we keepe a bawdy-house. 30 O Lord heeres Corporall Nims, now shall[5459] We haue wilful adultry and murther committed: Good Corporall Nim shew the valour of a man, And put vp your sword.

Nim. Push. 35

Pist. What dost thou push, thou prickeard cur of Iseland?

Nim. Will you shog off? I would haue you solus.

Pist. Solus egregious dog, that solus in thy throte, And in thy lungs, and which is worse, within Thy mesfull mouth, I do retort that solus in thy 40 Bowels, and in thy law, perdie: for I can talke, And Pistolls flashing firy cock is vp.

Nim. I am not Barbasom, you cannot coniure me:[5460] I haue an humour Pistoll to knock you indifferently well, And you fall foule with me Pistoll, Il scoure you with my 45 Rapier in faire termes. If you will walke off a little, Ile pricke your guts a little in good termes, And theres the humour of it.

Pist. O braggard vile, and damned furious wight, The Graue doth gape, and groaning 50 Death is neare, therefore exall.

They drawe.

Bar. Heare me, he that strikes the first blow, Ile kill him, as I am a souldier.

Pist. An oath of mickle might, and fury shall abate.

Nim. He cut your throat at one time or an other in faire termes, 55 And theres the humor of it.

Post. Couple gorge is the word, I thee defie agen: A damned hound, thinkst thou my spouse to get? No, to the powdering tub of infamy, Fetch forth the lazar kite of Cresides kinde, 60 Doll Tear-sheete, she by name, and her espowse I haue, and I will hold, the quandom quickly, For the onely she and Paco, there it is inough.

Enter the Boy.

Boy. Hostes you must come straight to my maister, And you Host Pistoll. Good Bardolfe 65 Put thy nose betweene the sheetes, and do the office of a warming pan.[5461]

Host. By my troath heele yeeld the crow a pudding one of these dayes, Ile go to him, husband youle come?

Bar. Come Pistoll be friends. Nim prithee be friends, and if thou wilt not be 70 Enemies with me too.

Ni. I shal haue my eight shillings I woon of you at beating?[5462]

Pist. Base is the slaue that payes.

Nim. That now I will haue, and theres the humor of it.

Pist. As manhood shall compound. They draw. 75

Bar. He that strikes the first blow, Ile kill him by this sword.

Pist. Sword is an oath, and oathes must haue their course.

Nim. I shall haue my eight shillings I wonne of you at beating?[5462]

Pist. A noble shalt thou haue, and readie pay, 80 And liquor likewise will I giue to thee, And friendship shall combind and brotherhood:[5463] Ile liue by Nim as Nim shall liue by me: Is not this iust? for I shall Sutler be[5464] Vnto the Campe, and profit will occrue. 85

Nim. I shall haue my noble?

Pist. In cash most truly paid.

Nim. Why theres the humour of it.

Enter Hostes.

Hostes. As euer you came of men come in, Sir Iohn poore soule is so troubled 90 With a burning tashan contigian feuer, tis wonderfull.

Pist. Let vs condoll the knight: for lamkins we will liue.[5465]

[Exeunt omnes.

[Sidenote: [SC. III.]]

Enter Exeter and Gloster.

Glost. Before God my Lord, his Grace is too bold to trust these traytors.

Exe. They shalbe apprehended by and by.

Glost. I but the man that was his bedfellow Whom he hath cloyed and graced with princely fauours That he should for a forraine purse, to sell 5 His Soueraignes life to death and trechery.

Exe. O the Lord of Massham.

Enter the King and three Lords.

King. Now sirs the windes faire, and we wil aboord;[5466] My Lord of Cambridge, and my Lord of Massham, And you my gentle Knight, giue me your thoughts, 10 Do you not thinke the power we beare with vs, Will make vs conquerors in the field of France?

Masha. No doubt my Liege, if each man do his best.

Cam. Neuer was Monarch better feared and loued then is your maiestie.

Gray. Euen those that were your fathers enemies 15 Haue steeped their galles in honey for your sake.

King. We therefore haue great cause of thankfulnesse, And shall forget the office of our hands: Sooner then reward and merit,[5467] According to their cause and worthinesse. 20

Masha. So seruice shall with steeled sinewes shine, And labour shall refresh it selfe with hope To do your Grace incessant seruice.

King. Vncle of Exeter, enlarge the man Committed yesterday, that rayled against our person, 25 We consider it was the heate of wine that set him on, And on his more aduice we pardon him.

Masha. That is mercie, but too much securitie: Let him bee punisht Soueraigne, least the example of him, Breed more of such a kinde. 30

King. O let vs yet be mercifull.

Cam. So may your highnesse, and punish too.

Gray. You shew great mercie if you giue him life, After the taste of his correction.

King. Alas your too much care and loue of me 35 Are heauy orisons gainst the poore wretch,[5468] If litle faults proceeding on distemper should not bee winked at, How should we stretch our eye, when capitall crimes, Chewed, swallowed and disgested, appeare before vs:[5469] Well yet enlarge the man, tho Cambridge and the rest 40 In their deare loues, and tender preseruation of our state, Would haue him punisht. Now to our French causes. Who are the late Commissioners?

Cam. Me one my Lord, your highnesse bad me aske for it to day. 45

Mash. So did you me my Soueraigne.

Gray. And me my Lord.

King. Then Richard Earle of Cambridge there is yours. There is yours my Lord of Masham. And sir Thomas Gray knight of Northumberland, this same is yours: 50 Read them, and know we know your worthinesse. Vnckle Exeter, I will aboord to night. Why how now Gentlemen, why change you colour? What see you in those papers That hath so chased your blood out of apparance? 55

Cam. I do confesse my fault, and do submit me To your highnesse mercie.

Mash. To which we all appeale.

King. The mercy which was quit in us but late, By your owne reasons is forestald and done: 60 You must not dare for shame to aske for mercy, For your owne conscience turne upon your bosomes, As dogs upon their maisters worrying them. See you my Princes, and my noble Peeres, These English monsters: 65 My Lord of Cambridge here, You know how apt we were to grace him, In all things belonging to his honour: And this vilde man hath for a fewe light crownes, Lightly conspired and sworne vnto the practices of France: 70 To kill vs here in Hampton. To the which, This knight no lesse in bountie bound to vs Then Cambridge is, haah likewise sworne.[5470] But oh what shall I say to thee false man, Thou cruell ingratefull and inhumane creature, 75 Thou that didst beare the key of all my counsell, That knewst the very secrets of my heart, That almost mightest a coyned me into gold,[5471] Wouldest thou a practisde on me for thy vse:[5472] Can it be possible that out of thee 80 Should proceed one sparke that might annoy my finger? Tis so strange, that tho the truth doth showe as grose As black from white, mine eye wil scarcely see it. Their faults are open, arrest them to the answer of the lawe, And God acquit them of their practises. 85

Exe. I arrest thee of high treason, By the name of Richard, Earle of Cambridge. I arest thee of high treason. By the name of Henry, Lord of Masham. I arest thee of high treason, 90 By the name of Thomas Gray, knight of Northumberland.

Mash. Our purposes God iustly hath discouered, And I repent my fault more then my death, Which I beseech your maiestie forgiue, Altho my body pay the price of it. 95

King. God quit you in his mercy. Heare your sentence.[5473] You haue conspired against our royall person, Ioyned with an enemy proclaimed and fixed. And frō his coffers receiued the golden earnest of our death Touching our person we seeke no redresse. But we our kingdomes safetie must so tender 101 Whose ruine you haue sought, That to our lawes we do deliuer you. Get ye therefore hence: poore miserable creatures to your death,[5474] The taste whereof, God in his mercy giue you 105 Patience to endure, and true repentance of all your deeds amisse: Beare them hence.

Exit three Lords.

Now Lords to France. The enterprise whereof, Shall be to you as us, successiuely. Since God cut off this dangerous treason lurking in our way 110 Cheerly to sea, the signes of war aduance: No King of England, if not King of France.

Exit omnes.

[Sidenote: [SC. IV.]]

Enter Nim, Pistoll, Bardolfe, Hostes and a Boy.

Host. I prethy sweete heart, let me bring thee so farre as Stanes.

Pist. No fur, no fur.

Bar. Well sir Iohn is gone. God be with him.

Host. I, he is in Arthors bosom, if euer any were: He went away as if it were a crysombd childe,[5475] 5 Betweene twelue and one, Iust at turning of the tide: His nose was as sharpe as a pen: For when I saw him fumble with the sheetes, And talk of floures and smile vpō his fingers ends 10 I knew there was no way but one. How now sir Iohn quoth I? And he cryed three times, God, God, God, Now I to comfort him, bad him not think of God, I hope there was no such need. 15 Then he bad me put more cloathes at his feete:[5476] And I felt to them, and they were as cold as any stone: And to his knees, and they were as cold as any stone. And so vpward, and vpward, and all was as cold as any stone.[5477]

Nim. They say he cride out on Sack. 20

Host. I that he did.

Boy. And of women.

Host. No that he did not.

Boy. Yes that he did: and he sed they were diuels incarnat.[5478]

Host. Indeed carnation was a colour he neuer loued.

Nim. Well he did cry out on women. 26

Host. Indeed he did in some sort handle women, But then he was rumaticke, and talkt of the whore of Babylon.

Boy. Hostes do you remember he saw a Flea stand Vpon Bardolfes Nose, and sed it was a blacke soule 30 Burning in hell fire?[5479]

Bar. Well, God be with him, That was all the wealth I got in his seruice.

Nim. Shall we shog off? The king wil be gone from Southampton. 35

Pist. Cleare vp thy cristalles, Looke to my chattels and my moueables. Trust none: the word is pitch and pay:[5480] Mens words are wafer cakes, And holdfast is the onely dog my deare. 40 Therefore cophetua be thy counsellor, Touch her soft lips and part.

Bar. Farewell hostes.

Nim. I cannot kis: and theres the humor of it. But adieu. 45

Pist. Keepe fast thy buggle boe.

Exit omnes.

[Sidenote: [SC. V.]]

Enter King of France, Bourbon, Dolphin, and others.

King. Now you Lords of Orleance, Of Bourbon, and of Berry, You see the King of England is not slack, For he is footed on this land alreadie.

Dolphin. My gratious Lord, tis meete we all goe foorth, 5 And arme vs against the foe: And view the weak & sickly parts of France: But let vs do it with no show of feare, No with no more, then if we heard England were busied with a Moris dance.[5481] 10 For my good Lord, she is so idely kingd, Her scepter so fantastically borne, So guided by a shallow humorous youth, That feare attends her not.

Con. O peace Prince Dolphin, you deceiue your selfe, 15 Question your grace the late Embassador, With what regard he heard his Embassage, How well supplied with aged Counsellours, And how his resolution andswered him. You then would say that Harry was not wilde. 20

King. Well thinke we Harry strong: And strongly arme us to preuent the foe.

Con. My Lord here is an Embassador From the King of England.

Kin. Bid him come in. 25 You see this chase is hotly followed Lords.

Dol. My gracious father, cut up this English short. Selfeloue my liege is not so vile a thing, As selfe neglecting.

Enter Exeter.

King. From our brother England?[5482] 30

Exe. From him, and thus he greets your Maiestie: He wils you in the name of God Almightie, That you deuest your selfe and lay apart That borrowed tytle, which by gift of heauen, Of lawe of nature, and of nations, longs[5483] 35 To him and to his heires, namely the crmvne And all wide stretched titles that belongs Unto the Crowne of France, that you may know Tis no sinister, nor no awkeward claime, Pickt from the wormeholes of old vanisht dayes, 40 Nor from the dust of old obliuion rackte, He sends you these most memorable lynes, In euery branch truly demonstrated: Willing you ouerlooke this pedigree, And when you finde him euenly deriued 45 From his most famed and famous ancestors, Edward the third, he bids you then resigne Your crowne and kingdome, indirectly held From him, the natiue and true challenger.

King. If not, what followes? 50

Exe. Bloody costraint, for if you hide the crown Euen in your hearts, there will he rake for it: Therefore in fierce tempest is he comming, In thunder, and in earthquake, like a Ioue, That if requiring faile, he will compell it: 55 And on your heads turnes he the widowes teares, The Orphanes cries, the dead mens bones,[5484] The pining maydens grones. For husbands, fathers, and distressed louers, Which shall be swallowed in this controuersie. 60 This is his claime, his threatning, and my message.[5485] Vnles the Dolphin be in presence here, To whom expresly we bring greeting too.

Dol. For the Dolphin? I stand here for him, What to heare from England. 65

Exe. Scorn & defiance, slight regard, contempt, And any thing that may not misbecome The mightie sender, doth he prise you at: Thus saith my king. Vnles your fathers highnesse Sweeten the bitter mocke you sent his Maiestie, 70 Heele call you to so loud an answere for it, That caues and wombely vaultes of France Shall chide your trespasse, and return your mock, In second accent of his ordenance.

Dol. Say that my father render faire reply, 75 It is against my will: For I desire nothing so much, As oddes with England. And for that cause according to his youth I did present him with those Paris balles. 80

Exe. Heele make your Paris Louer shake for it, Were it the mistresse Court of mightie Europe. And be assured, youle finde a difference As we his subiects haue in wonder found: Betweene his yonger dayes and these he musters now, 85 Now he wayes time euen to the latest graine, Which you shall finde in your owne losses If he stay in France.[5486]

King. Well for vs, you shall returne our answere backe To our brother England.[5482] 90

Exit omnes.

[Sidenote: [SC. VI.]]

Enter Nim, Bardolfe, Pistoll, Boy.

Nim. Before God here is hote seruice.[5487]

Pist. Tis hot indeed, blowes go and come, Gods vassals drop and die.

Nim. Tis honor, and theres the humor of it.

Boy. Would I were in London: Ide giue all my honor for a pot of Ale. 6

Pist. And I. If wishes would preuaile, I would not stay, but thither would I hie.

Enter Flewellen and beates them in.

Flew. Godes plud vp to the breaches You rascals, will you not vp to the breaches? 10

Nim. Abate thy rage sweete knight, Abate thy rage.

Boy. Well I would I were once from them: They would haue me as familiar With mens pockets, as their gloues, and their 15 Handkerchers, they will steale any thing. Bardolfe stole a Lute case, carryed it three mile, And sold it for three hapence.[5488] Nim stole a fier shouell. I knew by that, they meant to carry coales: 20 Well, if they will not leaue me, I meane to leaue them.

Exit Nim, Bardolfe, Pistoll, and the Boy.

Enter Gower.

Gower. Gaptain Flewellen, you must come strait[5489] To the Mines, to the Duke of Gloster. 25

Flew. Looke you, tell the Duke it is not so good To come to the mines: the concuaueties is otherwise, You may discusse to the Duke, the enemy is digd Himselfe fiue yardes vnder the countermines: By Iesus I thinke heele blowe up all[5490] 30 If there be no better direction.

[Sidenote: [SC. VII.]]

Enter the King and his Lords alarum.

King. How yet resolues the Gouernour of the Towne? This is the latest parley weele admit: Therefore to our best mercie giue your selues, Or like to men proud of destruction, defie vs to our worst, For as I am a souldier, a name that in my thoughts 5 Becomes me best, if we begin the battery once againe I will not leaue the halfe atchieued Harflew, Till in her ashes she be buried, The gates of mercie are all shut vp. What say you, will you yeeld and this auoyd, 10 Or guiltie in defence be thus destroyd?

Enter Gouernour.

Gouer. Our expectation hath this day an end: The Dolphin whom of succour we entreated, Returnes vs word, his powers are not yet ready, To raise so great a siege: therefore dread King, 15 We yeeld our towne and liues to thy soft mercie: Enter our gates, dispose of vs and ours, For we no longer are defensiue now.

[Sidenote: [SC. VIII.]]

Enter Katherine, Allice.

Kate. Allice venecia, vous aues cates en, Vou parte fort bon Angloys englatara, Coman sae palla vou la main en francoy.

Allice. La main madam de han.

Kate. E da bras. 5

Allice. De arma madam.

Kate. Le main da han la bras de arma.

Allice. Owye madam.

Kate. E Coman sa pella vow la menton a la coll.

Allice. De neck, e de cin, madam. 10

Kate. E de neck, e de cin, e de code.

Allice. De cudie ma foy Ie oblye, mais Ie remembre, Le tude, o de elbo madam.

Kate. Ecowte Ie rehersera, towt cella que Iac apoandre, De han, de arma, de neck, du cin, e de bilbo. 15

Allice. De elbo madam.

Kate. O Iesu, Iea obloye ma foy, ecoute Ie recontera De han, de arma, de neck, de cin, e de elbo, e ca bon.

Allice. Ma foy madam, vow parla au se bon Angloys Asie vous aues ettue en Englatara. 20

Kate. Par la grace de deu an petty tanes. Ie parle milleur Coman se pella vou le peid e le robe.

Allice. Le foot, e le con.

Kate. Le fot, e le con, ô Iesu! Ie ne vew poinct parle, Sie plus deuant le che cheualires de franca, 25 Pur one million ma foy.

Allice. Madame, de foote, e le con.

Kate. O et ill ausie, ecowte Allice, de han, de arma, De neck, de cin, le foote, e de con.

Allice. Cet fort bon madam.

Kate. Aloues a diner. 31

Exit omnes.

[Sidenote: [SC. IX.]]

Enter King of France, Lord Constable, the Dolphin, and Burbon.

King. Tis certaine he is past the Riuer Some.

Con. Mordeu ma via: Shall a few spranes of vs, The emptying of our fathers luxerie, Outgrow their grafters.

Bur. Normanes, basterd Normanes, mor du 5 And if they passe vnfought withall, Ile sell my Dukedom for a foggy farme In that short nooke Ile of England.

Const. Why whence haue they this mettall? Is not their clymate raw, foggy and colde. 10 On whom as in disdaine, the Sunne lookes pale? Can barley broath, a drench for swolne lades Their sodden water decockt such liuely blood? And shall our quicke blood spirited with wine Seeme frosty? O for honour of our names, 15 Let vs not hang like frozen Iicesickles Vpon our houses tops, while they a more frosty clymate Sweate drops of youthfull blood.

King. Constable dispatch, send Montioy forth, To know what willing raunsome he will giue? 20 Sonne Dolphin you shall stay in Rone with me.[5491]

Dol. Not so I do beseech your Maiestie.[5492]

King. Well, I say it shalbe so.

Exeunt omnes.

[Sidenote: [SC. X.]]

Enter Gower.[5493]

Go. How now Captain Flewellen, come you frō the bridge?

Flew. By Iesus thers excellēt seruice cōmitted at yᵉ bridge.

Gour. Is the Duke of Exeter safe?

Flew. The duke of Exeter is a mā whom I loue, & I honor, And I worship, with my soule, and my heart, and my life, 5 And my lands and my liuings, And my vttermost powers. The Duke is looke you, God be praised and pleased for it, no harme in the worell. He is maintain the bridge very gallently: there is an Ensigne[5494] 10 There, I do not know how you call him, but by Iesus I think He is as[5495] valient a man as Marke Anthonie, he doth maintain the bridge most[5496] gallantly: yet he is a man of no reckoning: But I did see him do gallant seruice.

Gouer. How do you call him? 15

Flew. His name is ancient Pistoll.

Gouer. I know him not.

Enter Ancient Pistoll.

Flew. Do you not know him, here comes the man.

Pist. Captaine, I thee beseech to do me fauour, The Duke of Exeter doth loue thee well. 20

Flew. I, and I praise God I haue merrited some loue at his hands.

Pist. Bardolfe a souldier, one of buxsome valour, Hath by furious fate And giddy Fortunes fickle wheele, That Godes blinde that stands vpon the rowling restlesse stone.[5497] 25

Flew. By your patience ancient Pistoll, Fortune, looke you is painted, Plind with a mufler before her eyes, To signifie to you, that Fortune is plind: And she is moreouer painted with a wheele, 30 Which is the morall that Fortune is turning, And inconstant, and variation; and mutabilities: And her fate is fixed at a sphericall stone Which roules, and roules, and roules: Surely the Poet is make an excellēt descriptiō of Fortune. 35 Fortune looke you is and excellent morall.[5498]

Pist. Fortune is Bardolfes foe, and frownes on him, For he hath stolne a packs, and hanged must he be:[5499] A damned death, let gallowes gape for dogs, Let man go free, and let not death his windpipe stop. 40 But Exeter hath giuen the doome of death, For packs of pettie price: Therefore go speake, the Duke will heare thy voyce, And let not Bardolfes vitall threed be cut, With edge of penny cord, and vile approach. 45 Speake Captaine for his life, and I will thee requite.

Flew. Captain Pistoll, I partly vnderstand your meaning.

Pist. Why then reioyce therefore.

Flew. Certainly Antient Pistol, tis not a thing to reioyce at, For if he were my owne brother, I would wish the Duke 50 To do his pleasure, and put him to executions: for look you, Disciplines ought to be kept, they ought to be kept.

Pist. Die and be damned, and figa for thy friendship.[5500]

Flew. That is good.

Pist. The figge of Spaine within thy Iawe. 55

Flew. That is very well.

Pist. I say the fig within thy bowels and thy durty maw.

Exit Pistoll.

Fle. Captaine Gour, cannot you hear it lighten & thunder?

Gour. Why is this the Ancient you told me of? I remember him now, he is a bawd, a cutpurse. 60

Flew. By Iesus hee is vtter as praue words vpon the bridge As you shall desire to see in a sommers day, but its all one, What he hath sed to me, looke you, is all one.

Go. Why this is a gull, a foole, a rogue that goes to the wars Onely to grace himselfe at his returne to London: 65 And such fellowes as he, Are perfect in great Commaunders names. They will learne by rote where seruices were done, At such and such a sconce, at such a breach, At such a conuoy: who came off brauely, who was shot, 70 Who disgraced, what termes the enemie stood on. And this they con perfectly in phrase of warre,[5501] Which they trick vp with new tuned oathes, & what a berd Of the Generalls cut, and a horid shout of the campe Will do among the foming bottles and alewasht wits 75 Is wonderfull to be thought on: but you must learne To know such slaunders of this age, Or else you may maruellously be mistooke.

Flew. Certain captain Gower, it is not the man, looke you, That I did take him to be: but when time shall serue, 80 I shall tell him a litle of my desires: here comes his Maiestie.

Enter King, Clarence, Gloster and others.

King. How now Flewellen, come you from the bridge?

Flew. I and it shall please your Maiestie, There is excellent seruice at the bridge.

King. What men haue you lost Flewellen? 85

Flew. And it shall please your Maiestie, The partition of the aduersarie hath bene great, Very reasonably great: but for our own parts, like you now,[5502] I thinke we haue lost neuer a man, vnlesse it be one For robbing of a church, one Bardolfe, if your Maiestie 90 Know the man, his face is full of whelkes and knubs, And pumples, and his breath blowes at his nose Like a cole, sometimes red, sometimes plew: But god be praised, now his nose is executed, & his fire out.

King. We would haue all offenders so cut off, 95 And we here giue expresse commaundment,[5503] That there be nothing taken from the villages but paid for, None of the French abused, Or abraided with disdainfull language:[5504] For when cruelty and lenitie play for a Kingdome, 100 The gentlest gamester is the sooner winner.

Enter French Herauld.

Hera. You know me by my habit.

Ki. Well thē, we know thee, what shuld we know of thee?

Hera. My maisters minde.

King. Vnfold it. 105

Heral. Go thee vnto Harry of England, and tell him, Aduantage is a better souldier then rashnesse: Altho we did seeme dead, we did but slumber. Now we speake vpon our kue, and our voyce is imperiall, England shall repent her folly: see her rashnesse,[5505] 110 And admire our sufferance. Which to raunsome, His pettinesse would bow vnder: For the effusion of our blood, his army is too weake: For the disgrace we haue borne, himselfe Kneeling at our feete, a weake and worthlesse satisfaction. 115 To this, adde defyance. So much from the king my maister.

King. What is thy name? we know thy qualitie.

Herald. Montioy.

King. Thou dost thy office faire, returne thee backe, And tell thy King, I do not seeke him now:[5506] 120 But could be well content, without impeach, To march on to Callis: for to say the sooth, Though tis no wisdome to confesse so much Vnto an enemie of craft and vantage. My souldiers are with sicknesse much infeebled, 125 My Army lessoned, and those few I haue,[5507] Almost no better then so many French: Who when they were in heart, I tell thee Herauld, I thought vpon one paire of English legges, Did march three French mens. 130 Yet forgiue me God, that I do brag thus:[5508] Your heire of France hath blowne this vice in me.[5509] I must repent, go tell thy maister here I am, My raunsome is this frayle and worthlesse body, My Army but a weake and sickly guarde. 135 Yet God before, we will come on, If France and such an other neighbour stood in our way: If we may passe, we will: if we be hindered, We shal your tawny ground with your red blood discolour. So Montioy get you gone, there is for your paines:[5510] 140 The sum of all our answere is but this, We would not seeke a battle as we are: Nor as we are, we say we will not shun it.[5511]

Herauld. I shall deliuer so: thanks to your Maiestie.

Glos. My Liege, I hope they will not come vpon vs now. 145

King. We are in Gods hand brother, not in theirs: To night we will encampe beyond the bridge, And on to morrow bid them march away.

[Sidenote: [SC. XI.]]

Enter Burbon, Constable, Orleance, Gebon.

Const. Tut I haue the best armour in the world.

Orleance. You haue an excellent armour, But let my horse haue his due.

Burbon. Now you talke of a horse, I haue a steed like the Palfrey of the sun, nothing but pure ayre and fire, 5 And hath none of this dull element of earth within him.

Orleance. He is of the colour of the Nutmeg.

Bur. And of the heate, a the Ginger.[5512] Turne all the sands into eloquent tongues, And my horse is argument for them all: 10 I once writ a Sonnet in the praise of my horse,[5513] And began thus. Wonder of nature.

Con. I haue heard a Sonnet begin so, In the praise of ones Mistresse.

Burb. Why then did they immitate that 15 Which I writ in praise of my horse, For my horse is my mistresse.

Con. Ma foy the other day, me thought Your mistresse shooke you shrewdly.

Bur. I bearing me. I tell thee Lord Constable, 20 My mistresse weares her owne haire.

Con. I could make as good a boast of that, If I had had a sow to my mistresse.[5514]

Bur. Tut thou wilt make vse of any thing.

Con. Yet I do not vse my horse for my mistresse. 25

Bur. Will it neuer be morning? Ile ride too morrow a mile, And my way shalbe paued with English faces.

Con. By my faith so will not I, For feare I be outfaced of my way. 30

Bur. Well ile go arme my selfe, hay.

Gebon. The Duke of Burbon longs for morning.

Or. I he longs to eate the English.

Con. I thinke heele eate all he killes.

Orle. O peace, ill will neuer said well. 35

Con. Ile cap that prouerbe, With there is flattery in friendship.[5515]

Or. O sir, I can answere that, With giue the diuel his due.

Con. Haue at the eye of that prouerbe, 40 With a logge of the diuel.

Or. Well the Duke of Burbon, is simply, The most actiue Gentleman of France.

Con. Doing his actiuitie, and heele stil be doing.

Or. He neuer did hurt as I heard off. 45

Con. No I warrant you, nor neuer will.

Or. I hold him to be exceeding valiant.

Con. I was told so by one that knows him better the[n] you.

Or. Whose that?

Con. Why he told me so himselfe: 50 And said he cared not who knew it.

Or. Well who will go with me to hazard, For a hundred English prisoners?

Con. You must go to hazard your selfe, Before you haue them. 55

Enter a Messenger.

Mess. My Lords, the English lye within a hundred Paces of your Tent.

Con. Who hath measured the ground?

Mess. The Lord Granpeere.

Con. A valiant man, a. an expert Gentleman.[5516] 60 Come, come away: The Sun is hie, and we weare out the day. Exit omnes.

[Sidenote: [SC. XII.]]

Enter the King disguised, to him Pistoll.[5517]

Pist. Ke ve la?

King. A friend.

Pist. Discus vnto me, art thou Gentleman? Or art thou common, base, and popeler?

King. No sir, I am a Gentleman of a Company. 5

Pist. Trailes thou the puissant pike?

King. Euen so sir. What are you?

Pist. As good a gentleman as the Emperour.

King. O then thou art better then the King?

Pist. The kings a bago, and a hart of gold. 10

Pist. A lad of life, an impe of fame:[5518] Of parents good, of fist most valiant: I kis his durtie shoe: and from my hart strings I loue the louely bully. What is thy name?

King. Harry le Roy. 15

Pist. Le Roy, a Cornish man: Art thou of Cornish crew?

Kin. No sir, I am a Wealchman.

Pist. A Wealchman: knowst thou Flewellen?

Kin. I sir, he is my kinsman. 20

Pist. Art thou his friend?

Kin. I sir.

Pist. Figa for thee then: my name is Pistoll.

Kin. It sorts well with your fiercenesse.

Pist. Pistoll is my name. 25

Exit Pistoll.

Enter Gower and Flewellen.

Gour. Captaine Flewellen.

Flew. In the name of Iesu speake lewer.[5519] It is the greatest folly in the worell, when the auncient Prerogatiues of the warres be not kept. I warrant you, if you looke into the warres of the Romanes, 30 You shall finde no tittle tattle, nor bible bable there: But you shall finde the cares, and the feares, And the ceremonies, to be otherwise.

Gour. Why the enemy is loud: you heard him all night.

Flew. Godes sollud, if the enemy be an Asse & a Foole, 35 And a prating cocks-come, is it meet that we be also a foole, And a prating cocks-come, in your conscience now?

Gour. Ile speake lower.

Flew. I beseech you do, good Captaine Gower.

Exit Gower, and Flewellen.

Kin. Tho it appeare a litle out of fashion, 40 Yet theres much care in this.

Enter three Souldiers.

1. Soul. Is not that the morning yonder?

2. Soul. I we see the beginning, God knowes whether we shall see the end or no.

3. Soul. Well I thinke the king could wish himselfe 45 Vp to the necke in the middle of the Thames, And so I would he were, at all aduentures, and I with him.

Kin. Now masters god morrow, what cheare?[5520]

3. S. Ifaith small cheer some of vs is like to haue, Ere this day ende.[5521] 50

Kin. Why fear nothing man, the king is frolike.

2. S. I he may be, for he hath no cause as we.[5522]

Kin. Nay say not so, he is a man as we are. The Violet smels to him as to vs:[5523] Therefore if he see reasons, he feares as we do. 55

2. Sol. But the king hath a heauy reckoning to make, If his cause be not good: when all those soules Whose bodies shall be slaughtered here, Shall ioyne together at the latter day, And say I dyed at such a place. Some swearing: 60 Some their wiues rawly left: Some leauing their children poore behind them. Now if his cause be bad, I think it will be a greeuous matter to him.

King. Why so you may say, if a man send his seruant As Factor into another Countrey, 65 And he by any meanes miscarry, You may say the businesse of the maister, Was the author of his seruants misfortune. Or if a sonne be imployd by his father, And he fall into any leaud action, you may say the father 70 Was the author of his sonnes damnation. But the master is not to answere for his seruants, The father for his sonne, nor the king for his subiects: For they purpose not their deaths, whē they craue their seruices: Some there are that haue the gift of premeditated 75 Murder on them: Others the broken scale of Forgery, in beguiling maydens. Now if these outstrip the lawe, Yet they cannot escape Gods punishment. War is Gods Beadel. War is Gods vengeance: 80 Euery mans seruice is the kings: But euery mans soule is his owne. Therfore I would haue euery souldier examine himselfe, And wash euery moath out of his conscience: That in so doing, he may be the readier for death: 85 Or not dying, why the time was well spent, Wherein such preparation was made.

3. Lord. Yfaith he saies true:[5524] Euery mans fault on his owne head,[5525] I would not haue the king answere for me. 90 Yet I intend to fight lustily for him.

King. Well, I heard the king, he wold not be ransomde.[5526]

2. L. I he said so, to make vs fight:[5527] But when our throates be cut, he may be ransomde, And we neuer the wiser. 95

King. If I liue to see that, Ile neuer trust his word againe.

2. Sol. Mas youle pay him then, tis a great displeasure That an elder gun, can do against a cannon, Or a subiect against a monarke. Youle nere take his word again, your a nasse goe.[5528] 100

King. Your reproofe is somewhat too bitter: Were it not at this time I could be angry.

2. Sol. Why let it be a quarrell if thou wilt.

King. How shall I know thee?

2. Sol. Here is my gloue, which if euer I see in thy hat,[5529] 105 Ile challenge thee, and strike thee.

Kin. Here is likewise another of mine, And assure thee ile weare it.[5530]

2. Sol. Thou dar'st as well be hangd.

3. Sol. Be friends you fooles, 110 We haue French quarrels anow in hand:[5531] We haue no need of English broyles.

Kin. Tis no treason to cut French crownes, For to morrow the king himselfe wil be a clipper.

Exit the souldiers.

[Sidenote: [SC. XIII.]]

_Enter the King, Gloster, Epingam, and Attendants._[5532]

K. O God of battels steele my souldiers harts, Take from them now the sence of rekconing, That the apposed multitudes which stand before them, May not appall their courage. O not to day, not to day ô God, 5 Thinke on the fault my father made, In compassing the crowne. I Richards bodie haue interred new, And on it hath bestowd more contrite teares, Then from it issued forced drops of blood: 10 A hundred men haue I in yearly pay, Which euery day their withered hands hold vp To heauen to pardon blood, And I haue built two chanceries, more wil I do: Tho all that I can do, is all too litle. 15

Enter Gloster.

Glost. My Lord.

King. My brother Glosters voyce.

Glost. My Lord, the Army stayes vpon your presence.

King. Stay Gloster stay, and I will go with thee, The day my friends, and all things stayes for me. 20

[Sidenote: [SC. XIV.]]

Enter Clarence, Gloster, Exeter, and Salisburie.

War. My Lords the French are very strong.

Exe. There is fiue to one, and yet they all are fresh.[5533]

War. Of fighting men they haue full fortie thousand.

Sal. The oddes is all too great. Farwell kind Lords: Braue Clarence, and my Lord of Gloster, 5 My Lord of Warwicke, and to all farewell.

Clar. Farewell kind Lord, fight valiantly to day, And yet in truth, I do thee wrong, For thou art made on the rrue sparkes of honour.[5534]

Enter King.

War. O would we had but ten thousand men 10 Now at this instant, that doth not worke in England.

Kin. Whose that, that wishes so, my Cousen Warwick? Gods will, I would not loose the honour One man would share from me, Not for my Kingdome. 15 No faith my Cousen, wish not one man more, Rather proclaime it presently through our campe, That he that hath no stomacke to this feast, Let him depart, his pasport shall bee drawne, And crownes for conuoy put into his purse, 20 We would not die in that mans company, That feares his fellowship to die with vs. This day is called the day of Cryspin, He that outliues this day, and sees old age, Shall stand a tiptoe when this day is named, 25 And rowse him at the name of Cryspin. He that outliues this day, and comes safe home, Shall yearely on the vygill feast his friends, And say, to morrow is S. Cryspines day: Then shall we in their flowing bowles 30 Be newly remembred. Harry the King, Bedford and Exeter, Clarence and _Gloster, Warwick_ and Yorke. Familiar in their mouthes as houshold words. This story shall the good man tell his sonne, 35 And from this day, vnto the generall doome: But we in it shall be remembred. We fewe, we happie fewe, we bond of brothers, For he to day that sheads his blood by mine, Shalbe my brother, be he nere so base, 40 This day shall gentle his condition. Then shall he strip his sleeues, and shew his skars, And say, these wounds I had on Crispines day: And Gentlemen in England now a bed, Shall thinke themselues accurst, 45 And hold their manhood cheape,[5535] While any speake that fought with vs[5535] Vpon Saint Crispines day.[5536]

Glost. My gracious Lord, The French is in the field. 50

Kin. Why all things are ready, if our minds be so.

War. Perish the man whose mind is backward now.

King. Thou dost not wish more helpe frō England, cousen?

War. Gods will my Liege, would you and I alone, Without more helpe, might fight this battle out. 55 Why well said. That doth please me better, Then to wish me one. You know your charge, God be with you all.

Enter the Herald from the French.

Herald. Once more I come to know of thee king Henry, What thou wilt giue for raunsome? 60

Kin. Who hath sent thee now?

Her. The Constable of France.

Kin. I prethy beare my former answer backe: Bid them atchieue me, and then sell my bones. Good God, why should they mock good fellows thus? 65 The man that once did sell the Lions skin, While the beast liued, was kild with hunting him. A many of our bodies shall no doubt[5537] Finde graues within your realme of France: Tho buried in your dunghils, we shalbe famed, 70 For there the Sun shall greete them, And draw vp their honors reaking vp to heauen, Leauing their earthly parts to choke your clyme: The smel wherof, shall breed a plague in France: Marke then abundant valour in our English, 75 That being dead, like to the bullets erasing, Breakes forth into a second course of mischiefe, Killing in relaps of mortalitie: Let me speake proudly, Ther's not a peece of feather in our campe, 80 Good argument I hope we shall not flye: And time hath worne vs into flouendry. But by the mas, our hearts are in the trim,[5538] And my poore souldiers tel me, yet ere night Thayle be in fresher robes, or they will plucke 85 The gay new cloathes ore your French souldiers eares, And turne them out of seruice. If they do this, As if it please God they shall, Then shall our ransome soone be leuied.[5539] Saue thou thy labour Herauld: 90 Come thou no more for ransom, gentle Herauld. They shall haue nought I sweare, but these my bones: Which if they haue, as I will leaue am them,[5540] Will yeeld them litle, tell the Constable.

Her. I shall deliuer so. 95

Exit Herauld.

Yorke. My gracious Lord, vpon my knee I craue, The leading of the vaward.

Kin. Take it braue Yorke. Come souldiers lets away: And as thou pleasest God, dispose the day.

Exit.

[Sidenote: [SC. XV.]]

Enter the foure French Lords.

Ge. O diabello.

Const. Mor du ma vie.

Or. O what a day is this!

Bur. O Iour dei houte all is gone, all is lost.

Con. We are inough yet liuing in the field,[5541] 5 To smother up the English, If any order might be thought vpon.

Bur. A plague of order, once more to the field,[5542] And he that will not follow Burbon now, Let him go home, and with his cap in hand, 10 Like a bace leno hold the chamber doore,[5543] Why least by a slaue no gentler then my dog, His fairest daughter is contamuracke.

Con. Disorder that hath spoyld vs, right vs now, Come we in heapes, weele offer vp our liues 15 Vnto these English, or else die with fame. Come, come along, Lets dye with honour, our shame doth last too long.

Exit omnes.

[Sidenote: [SC. XVI.]]

Enter Pistoll, the French man, and the Boy.

Pist. Eyld cur, eyld cur.

French. O Monsire, ie vous en pree aues petie de moy.

Pist. Moy shall not serue. I will haue fortie moys. Boy aske him his name.[5544]

Boy. Comant ettes vous apelles? 5

French. Monsier Fer.

Boy. He saies his name is Master Fer.

Pist. Ile Fer him, and ferit him, and ferke him: Boy discus the same in French.

Boy. Sir I do not know, whats French 10 For fer, ferit and fearkt.[5545]

Pist. Bid him prepare, for I wil cut his throate.

Boy. Feate, vou preat, ill voulles coupele votre gage.[5546]

Pist. Ony e ma foy couple la gorge.[5547] Vnlesse thou giue to me egregious raunsome, dye. 15 One poynt of a foxe.[5548]

French. Qui dit ill monsiere. Ill ditye si vou ny vouly pa domy luy.

Boy. La gran ransome, ill vou tueres.

French. O lee vous en pri pettit gentelhome, parle 20 A cee, gran capataine, pour auez mercie[5549] A moy, ey lee donerees pour mon ransome Cinquante ocios. Ie suyes vngentelhome de France.

Pist. What sayes he boy?

Boy. Marry sir he sayes, he is a Gentleman of a great 25 House, of France: and for his ransome, He will giue you 500. crownes.

Pist. My fury shall abate, And I the Crownes will take. And as I suck blood, I will some mercie shew, 30 Follow me cur.

Exit omnes.

[Sidenote: [SC. XVII.]]

Enter the King and his Nobles, Pistoll.[5550]

King. What the French retire? Yet all is not done, yet keepe the French the field.[5551]

Exe. The Duke of Yorke commends him to your Grace.

King. Liues he good Vnckle, twise I sawe him downe, Twise vp againe: 5 From helmet to the spurre, all bleeding ore.

Exe. In which aray, braue souldier doth he lye, Larding the plaines, and by his bloody side, Yoake fellow to his honour dying wounds, The noble Earle of Suffolke also lyes.[5552] 10 Suffolke first dyde, and Yorke all hasted ore,[5553] Comes to him where in blood he lay steept,[5554] And takes him by the beard, kisses the gashes That bloodily did yane vpon his face, And cryde aloud, tary deare cousin Suffolke: 15 My soule shall thine keep company in heauen: Tary deare soule awhile, then flie to rest: And in this glorious and well foughten field, We kept togither in our chiualdry. Vpon these words I came and cheerd them vp, 20 He tooke me by the hand, said dear my Lord, Commend my seruice to my soueraigne. So did he turne, and ouer Suffolkes necke He threw his wounded arme, and so espoused to death, With blood he sealed. An argument 25 Of neuer ending loue. The pretie and sweet maner of it, Forst those waters from me, which I would haue stopt, But I not so much of man in me,[5555] But all my mother came into my eyes, And gaue me vp to teares. 30

Kin. I blame you not: for hearing you, I must conuert to teares.

Alarum soundes.

What new alarum is this? Bid euery souldier kill his prisoner.

Pist. Couple gorge. Exit omnes. 35

[Sidenote: [SC. XVIII.]]

Enter Flewellen, and Captaine Gower.

Flew. Godes plud kil the boyes and the lugyge, Tis the arrants peece of knauery as can be desired, In the worell now, in your conscience now.

Gour. Tis certaine, there is not a Boy left aliue,[5556] And the cowerdly rascals that ran from the battell, 5 Themselues haue done this slaughter: Beside, they haue carried away and burnt, All that was in the kings Tent: Whervpon the king caused euery prisoners Throat to be cut. O he is a worthy king. 10

Flew. I he was born at Monmorth;[5557] Captain Gower, what call you the place where Alexander the big was borne?

Gour. Alexander the great.

Flew. Why I pray, is nat big great?[5558] 15 As if I say, big, or great, or magnanimous, I hope it is all one reconing,[5559] Saue the frase is a little varation.

Gour. I thinke Alexander the great Was borne at Macedon. 20 His father was called Philip of Macedon, As I take it.

Flew. I thinke it was Macedon indeed where Alexander Was borne: looke you captaine Gower, And if you looke into the mappes of the worell well, 25 You shall finde litle difference betweene Macedon and Monmorth. Looke you, there is A Riuer in Macedon, and there is also a Riuer In Monmorth, the Riuers name at Monmorth Is called Wye. 30 But tis out of my braine, what is the name of the other: But tis all one, tis so like, as my fingers is to my fingers,[5560] And there is Samons in both. Looke you captaine Gower, and you marke it, You shall finde our King is come after Alexander. 35 God knowes, and you know, that Alexander in his Bowles, and his alles, and his wrath, and his displeasures, And indignations, was kill his friend Clitus.

Gow. I but our King is not like him in that, For he neuer killd any of his friends. 40

Flew. Looke you, tis not well done to take the tale out O a mans mouth, ere it is made an end and finished: I speake in the comparisons, as Alexander is kill His friend Clitus: so our King being in his ripe Wits and iudgements, is turne away, the fat knite 45 With the great belly doublet: I am forget his name.

Gower. Sir Iohn Falstaffe.

Flew. I, I thinke it is Sir Iohn Falstaffe indeed, I can tell you, theres good men borne at Monmorth.

Enter King and the Lords.[5561]

King. I was not angry since I came into France,[5562] 50 Vntill this houre. Take a trumpet Herauld, And ride vnto the horsmen on yon hill: If they will fight with vs bid them come downe, Or leaue the field, they do offend our sight: 55 Will they do neither, we will come to them, And make them skyr away, as fast As stones enforst from the old Assirian slings. Besides, weele cut the throats of those we haue, And not one aliue shall taste our mercy. 60

Enter the Herauld.

Gods will what meanes this? knowst thou not That we haue fined these bones of ours for ransome?

Herald. I come great king for charitable fauour, To sort our Nobles from our common men, We may haue leaue to bury all our dead, 65 Which in the field lye spoyled and troden on.

Kin. I tell thee truly Herauld, I do not know whether[5563] The day be ours or no: For yet a many of your French do keep the field.

Hera. The day is yours. 70

Kin. Praised be God therefore. What Castle call you that?

Hera. We call it Agincourt.

Kin. Then call we this the field of Agincourt. Fought on the day of Cryspin, Cryspin.[5564] 75

Flew. Your grandfather of famous memorie, If your grace be remembred, Is do good seruice in France.

Kin. Tis true Flewellen.

Flew. Your Maiestie sayes verie true. 80 And it please your Maiestie, The Wealchmen there was do good seruice, In a garden where Leekes did grow. And I thinke your Maiestie wil take no scorne,[5565] To weare a Leake in your cap vpon S. Dauies day. 85

Kin. No Flewellen, for I am wealch as well as you.

Flew. All the water in Wye wil not wash your wealch Blood out of you, God keep it, and preserue it, To his graces will and pleasure.

Kin. Thankes good countryman. 90

Flew. By Iesus I am your Maiesties countryman: I care not who know it, so long as your maiesty is an honest man.

K. God keep me so. Our Herald go with him, And bring us the number of the scattred French.

Exit Heralds.

Call yonder souldier hither. 95

Flew. You fellow come to the king.

Kin. Fellow why doost thou weare that gloue in thy hat?

Soul. And please your maiestie, tis a rascals that swagard With me the other day: and he hath one of mine, Which if euer I see, I haue sworne to strike him.[5566] 100 So hath he sworne the like to mee.[5567]

K. How think you Flewellen, is it lawfull he keep his oath?[5568]

Fl. And it please your maiesty, tis lawful he keep his vow.[5568] If he be periur'd once, he is as arrant a beggerly knaue, As treads vpon too blacke shues. 105

Kin. His enemy may be a gentleman of worth.

Flew. And if he be as good a gentleman as Lucifer And Belzebub, and the diuel himselfe, Tis meete he keepe his vowe.

Kin. Well sirrha keep your word. 110 Vnder what Captain seruest thou?

Soul. Vnder Captaine Gower.

Flew. Captaine Gower is a good Captaine: And hath good littrature in the warres.[5569]

Kin. Go call him hither. 115

Soul. I will my lord.

Exit souldier.

Kin. Captain Flewellen, when Alonson and I was[5570] Downe together, I tooke this gloue off from his helmet,[5571] Here Flewellen, weare it. _I_f any do challenge it,[5572] He is a friend of Alonsons, 120 And an enemy to mee.

Fle. Your maiestie doth me as great a fauour As can be desired in the harts of his subiects. I would see that man now that should chalenge this gloue:[5573] And it please God of his grace. I would but see him, 125 That is all.

Kin. Flewellen knowst thou Captaine Gower?

Fle. Captaine Gower is my friend. And if it like your maiestie, I know him very well.

Kin. Go call him hither. 130

Flew. I will and it shall please your maiestie.

Kin. Follow Flewellen closely at the heeles, The gloue he weares, it was the souldiers: It may be there will be harme betweene them, For I do know Flewellen valiant, 135 And being toucht, as hot as gunpowder: And quickly will returne an iniury. Go see there be no harme betweene them.

[Sidenote: [SC. XIX.]]

Enter Gower, Flewellen, and the Souldier.[5574]

Flew. Captain Gower, in the name of Iesu, Come to his Maiestie, there is more good toward you,[5575] Then you can dreame off.

Soul. Do you heare you sir? do you know this gloue?[5576]

Flew. I know the the gloue is a gloue.[5577] 5

Soul. Sir I know this, and thus I challenge it.

[He strikes him.

Flew. Gode plut, and his. Captain Gower stand away:[5578] Ile giue treason his due presently.

Enter the King, Warwicke, Clarence, and Exeter.

Kin. How now, what is the matter?[5579]

Flew. And it shall please your Maiestie, Here is the the notablest peece of treason come to light, 11 As you shall desire to see in a sommers day. Here is a rascall, beggerly rascall, is strike the gloue, Which your Maiestie tooke out of the helmet of Alonson:[5580] And your Maiestie will beare me witnes, and testimony,[5581] 15 And auouchments, that this is the gloue.

Soul. And it please your Maiestie, that was my gloue. He that I gaue it too in the night,[5582] Promised me to weare it in his hat: I promised to strike him if he did. 20 I met that Gentleman, with my gloue in his hat,[5583] And I thinke I haue bene as good as my word.

Flew. Your Maiestie heares, vnder your Maiesties Manhood, what a beggerly lowsie knaue it is.

Kin. Let me see thy gloue. Looke you, 25 This is the fellow of it. It was I indeed you promised to strike. And thou thou hast giuen me most bitter words.[5584] How canst thou make vs amends?

Flew. Let his necke answere it, 30 If there be any marshals lawe in the worell.

Soul. My Liege, all offences come from the heart: Neuer came any from mine to offend your Maiestie. You appeard to me as a common man:[5585] Witnesse the night, your garments, your lowlinesse, 35 And whatsoeuer you receiued vnder that habit, I beseech your Maiestie impute it to your owne fault And not mine. For your selfe came not like your selfe:[5586] Had you bene as you seemed, I had made no offence.[5587] Therefore I beseech your grace to pardon me. 40

Kin. Vnckle, fill the gloue with crownes, And giue it to the souldier. Weare it fellow, As an honour in thy cap, till I do challenge it. Giue him the crownes. Come Captaine Flewellen, I must needs haue you friends. 45

Flew. By Iesus, the fellow hath mettall enough In his belly. Harke you souldier, there is a shilling for you,[5588] And keep your selfe out of brawles & brables, & dissentiōs, And looke you, it shall be the better for you.

Soul. Ile none of your money sir, not I. 50

Flew. Why tis a good shilling man.[5588] Why should you be queamish? Your shoes are not so good: It will serue you to mend your shoes.[5589]

Kin. What men of sort are taken vnckle?

Exe. Charles Duke of Orleance, Nephew to the King, 55 Iohn Duke of Burbon, and Lord Bowchquall.[5590] Of other Lords and Barrons, Knights and Squiers, Full fifteene hundred, besides common men. This note doth tell me of ten thousand French, that in the field lyes slaine. 60 Of Nobles bearing banners in the field, Charles de le Brute, his Constable of _France.[5591] Iaques_ of Chatillian, Admirall of France. The Maister of the crosbows, Iohn Duke Alōson. Lord Ranbieres, hie Maister of France. 65 The braue sir Gwigzard, Dolphin. Of Nobelle Charillas, Gran Prie, and Rosse, Fawconbridge and _Foy. Gerard_ and Verton. Vandemant and Lestra. Here was a royall fellowship of death.[5592] Where is the number of our English dead? 70 Edward the Duke of Yorke, the Earle of Suffolke,[5593] Sir Richard Ketly, Dauy Gam Esquier:[5594] And of all other, but fiue and twentie.[5595] O God thy arme was here,[5596] And vnto thee alone, ascribe we praise. 75 When without strategem, And in euen shock of battle, was euer heard[5597] So great, and litle losse, on one part and an other? Take it God, for it is onely thine.[5598]

Exe. Tis wonderfull. 80

King. Come let vs go on procession through the camp: Let it be death proclaimed to any man, To boast hereof, or take the praise from God, Which is his due.

_Flew. I_s it lawfull, and it please your Maiestie, 85 To tell how many is kild?

King. Yes Flewellen, but with this acknowledgement, That God fought for vs.

Flew. Yes in my conscience, he did vs great good.

King. Let there be sung, Nououes and te Deum. 90 The dead with charitie enterred in clay: Weele then to Calice, and to England then, Where nere from France, arriude more happier men.

Exit omnes.

[Sidenote: [SC. XX.]]

Enter Gower, and Flewellen.

Gower. But why do you weare your Leeke to day? Saint Dauies day is past?[5599]

Flew. There is occasion Captaine Gower, Looke you why, and wherefore, The other day looke you, Pistolles 5 Which you know is a man of no merites In the worell, is come where I was the other day, And brings bread and sault, and bids me Eate my Leeke: twas in a place, looke you, Where I could moue no discentions:[5600] 10 But if I can see him, I shall tell him A litle of my desires.

Gow. Here a comes, swelling like a Turkecocke.[5601]

Enter Pistoll.

Flew. Tis no matter for his swelling, and his turkecockes. God plesse you Antient Pistoll, you scall, 15 Beggerly, lowsie knaue, God plesse you.

Pist. Ha, art thou bedlem? Dost thou thurst base Troyan, To haue me folde vp Parcas fatall web? Hence, I am qualmish at the smell of Leeke. 20

Flew. Antient Pistoll. I would desire you because It doth not agree with your stomacke, and your appetite,[5602] And your digestions, to eate this Leeke.

Pist. Not for Cadwalleder and all his goates.

Flew. There is one goate for you, ancient Pistol. 25

He strikes him.

Pist. Bace Troyan, thou shalt dye.[5603]

Flew. I, I know I shall dye, meane time, I would[5604] Desire you to line and eate this Leeke.

Gower. Inough Captaine, you haue astonisht him.[5605]

Flew. Astonisht him, by _I_esu, Ile beate his head 30 Foure dayes, and foure nights, but Ile[5606] Make him eate some part of my Leeke.

Pist. Well must I byte?

Flew. I out of question or doubt, or ambiguities You must byte.[5607] 35

Pistol. Good good.

Flew. I Leekes are good, Antient Pistoll. There is a shilling for you to heale your bloody coxkome.[5608]

Pist. Me a shilling.

Flew. If you will not take it, 40 I haue an other Leeke for you.

Pist. I take thy shilling in earnest of reconing.

Flew. If I owe you any thing, ile pay you in cudgels,[5609] You shalbe a woodmonger, And by cudgels, God bwy you,[5610] 45 Antient Pistoll, God blesse you,[5611] And heale your broken pate. Antient Pistoll, if you see Leekes an other time, Mocke at them, that is all: God bwy you.

Exit Flewellen.

Pist. All hell shall stirre for this. 50 Doth Fortune play the huswye with me now?[5612] Is honour cudgeld from my warlike lines?[5613] Well France farwell, newes haue I certainly That Doll is sicke. One mallydie of France, The warres affordeth nought, home will I trug. 55 Bawd will I turne, and vse the slyte of hand:[5614] To England will I steale, And there Ile steale. And patches will I get vnto these skarres, And sweare I gat them in the Gallia warres. 60

[Exit Pistoll.

[Sidenote: [SC. XXI.]]

Enter at one doore, the King of England _and his Lords. And at the other doore, the King of_ France, Queene Katherine, the Duke of Burbon, and others.

Harry. Peace to this meeting, wherefore we are met. And to our brorher France, Faire time of day.[5615] Faire health vnto our louely cousen Katherine. And as a branch, and member of this stock: We do salute you Duke of Burgondie. 5

Fran. Brother of England, right ioyous are we to behold Your face, so are we Princes English euery one.

Duk. With pardon vnto both your mightines.[5616] Let it not displease you, if I demaund What rub or bar hath thus far hindred you, 10 To keepe you from the gentle speech of peace?

Har. If Duke of Burgondy, you wold haue peace, You must buy that peace, According as we haue drawne our articles.

Fran. We haue but with a cursenary eye,[5617] 15 Oreviewd them: pleaseth your Grace, To let some of your Counsell sit with vs, We shall returne our peremptory answere.

Har. Go Lords, and sit with them, And bring vs answere backe. 20 Yet leaue our cousen Katherine here behind.

France. Withall our hearts.

Exit King and the Lords. Manet, Hrry, Katherine, and the Gentlewoman.

Hate. Now Kate, you haue a blunt wooer here[5618][5619] Left with you. If I could win thee at leapfrog, 25 Or with vawting with my armour on my backe, Into my saddle, Without brag be it spoken, Ide make compare with any. But leauing that Kate, 30 If thou takest me now, Thou shalt haue me at the worst: And in wearing, thou shalt haue me better and better, Thou shalt haue a face that is not worth sun-burning. But doost thou thinke, that thou and I, 35 Betweene Saint Denis, And Saint George, shall get a boy, That shall goe to Constantinople, And take the great Turke by the beard, ha Kate?

Kate. Is it possible dat me sall 40 Loue de enemie de France.

Harry. No Kate, tis vnpossible You should loue the enemie of France:[5620] For Kate, I loue France so well, That Ile not leaue a Village, 45 Ile haue it all mine: then Kate, When France is mine, And I am yours, Then France is yours, And you are mine. 50

Kate. I cannot tell what is dat.

Harry. No Kate, Why Ile tell it you in French,[5621] Which will hang vpon my tongue, like a bride On her new married Husband. 55 Let me see, Saint Dennis be my speed. Quan France et mon.

Kate. Dat is, when France is yours.

Harry. Et vous ettes amoy.

Kate. And I am to you. 60

Harry. Douck France ettes a vous:

Kate. Den France sall be mine.

Harry. Et Ie suyues a vous.

Kate. And you will be to me.

Har. Wilt beleeue me Kate? tis easier for me 65 To conquer the kingdome, thē to speak so much More French.

Kate. A your Maiesty has false France inough To deceiue de best Lady in France.

Harry. No faith Kate not I. But Kate,[5622] 70 In plaine termes, do you loue me?[5623]

Kate. I cannot tell.

Harry. No, can any of your neighbours tell? Ile aske them. Come K_ate_, I know you loue me. 75 And soone when you are in your closset, Youle question this Lady of me. But I pray thee sweete K_ate_, vse me mercifully, Because I loue thee cruelly. That I shall dye K_ate_, is sure: 80 But for thy loue, by the Lord neuer. What Wench, A straightbacke will growe crooked, A round eye will growe hollowe, A great leg will waxe small, 85 A curld pate proue balde: But a good heart Kate, is the sun and the moone, And rather the Sun and not the Moone: And therefore K_ate_ take me, Take a souldier: take a souldier, 90 Take a King. Therefore tell me K_ate_, wilt thou haue me?

K_ate._ Dat is as please the King my father.

Harry. Nay it will please him:[5624] Nay it shall please him K_ate_. 95 And vpon that condition K_ate_ Ile kisse you.

K_a._ O mon du Ie ne voudroy faire quelke chosse[5625] Pour toute le monde, Ce ne poynt votree fachion en fouor.

Harry. What saies she Lady?[5626] 100

Lady. Dat it is not de fasion en France, For de maides, before da be married to[5627] May foy ie oblye, what is to bassie?

Har. To kis, to kis. O that tis not the Fashion in Frannce for the maydes to kis 105 Before they are married.

Lady. Owye see votree grace.

Har. Well, weele breake that custome. Therefore Kate patience perforce and yeeld. Before God Kate, you haue witchcraft 110 In your kisses: And may perswade with me more, Then all the French Councell. Your father is returned.

_Enter the King of France, and the Lordes._

How now my Lords? 115

Fran. Brother of England, We haue orered the Articles,[5628] And haue agreed to all that we in sedule had.

Exe. Only he hath not subscribed this, Where your maiestie demaunds, 120 That the king of France hauing any occasion To write for matter of graunt, Shall name your highnesse, in this forme: And with this addition in French. Nostre tresher fils, Henry Roy D'anglaterre, 125 E heare de France. And thus in Latin: _Preclarissimus filius noster Henricus Rex Anglie, Et heres Francie._

Fran. Nor this haue we so nicely stood vpon, But you faire brother may intreat the same. 130

Har. Why then let this among the rest, Haue his full course: And withall, Your daughter Katherine in mariage.

Fran. This and what else, Your maiestie shall craue: 135 God that disposeth all, giue you much ioy.

Har. Why then faire Katherine, Come giue me thy hand: Our manage will we present solemnise, And end our hatred by a bond of loue. 140 Then will I sweare to Kate, and Kate to mee: And may our vowes once made, vnbroken bee.

FOOTNOTES:

[5435] Shure] Q₁ Q₂. Sure Q₃.

[5436] vs in]Q₁ Q₂. in vs Q₃.

[5437] Then] Q₁. Bish. Then Q₂ Q₃.

[5438] I] Q₁. I haue Q₂ Q₃.

[5439] Conuaid] Q₁. Couai'd Q₂. Conuey'd Q₃.

[5440] imbace] Q₁ Q₂. embrace Q₃.

[5441] is it] Q₁ Q₂. it is Q₃.

[5442] graunsirs] Q₁ Q₂. Grandsires Q₃.

[5443] blood] Q₁. bloud Q₂. the blood Q₃.

[5444] against] Q₁ Q₂. gainst Q₃.

[5445] for] Q₁ Q₃. against Q₂.

[5446] vnfurnish] Q₁. vnfurnisht Q₂ Q₃.

[5447] into] Q₁ Q₂. in Q₃.

[5448] play] Q₁ Q₂. play him Q₃.

[5449] in] Q₁ Q₂. in the Q₃.

[5450] haue we] Q₁ Q₂. we haue Q₃.

[5451] lide] Q₁. like Q₂ Q₃.

[5452] there with] Q₁. there Q₂. therewith Q₃.

[5453] rightfull] Q₁ Q₂. right Q₃.

[5454] Godmorrow] Q₁ Q₂. Good morrow Q₃.

[5455] It is] Q₁ Q₂. Tis Q₃.

[5456] quickly] Q₁. Quickly Q₂ Q₃.

[5457] my]Q₁ Q₂. the Q₂.

[5458] honest] Q₁ Q₂. om. Q₃.

[5459] Nims] Q₁. Nim] Q₂ Q₃.

[5460] Barbasom] Q₁ Q₃. Earbasom Q₂.

[5461] warming] Q₁ Q₂. warning Q₃.

[5462] beating] Q₁ Q₂. betting Q₃.

[5463] and] Q₁ Q₂. out Q₃.

[5464] Sutler] Q₁ Q₃. Butler Q₂.

[5465] condoll] Q₁ Q₂. condole Q₃.

[5466] windes] Q₁ Q₂. winde is Q₃.

[5467] Sooner ... merit] Omitted in Q₃.

[5468] gainst] Q₁ Q₂. against Q₃.

[5469] disgested] Q₁ Q₂. digested Q₃.

appeare] Q₁ Q₃. appeared Q₂.

[5470] haah] Q₁. hath Q₂ Q₃.

[5471] a] Q₁. haue Q₂ Q₃.

[5472] a] Q₁ Q₂. haue Q₃.

[5473] mercy] Q₁. mercie Q₂. mersy Q₃.

[5474] ye] Q₁ Q₂. you Q₃.

therefore] Q₁ Q₂. om. Q₃.

[5475] crysombd] Q₁ Q₃. chrisombd Q₂.

[5476] at] Q₁ Q₂. on Q₃.

[5477] any] Q₁ Q₂. om. Q₅.

[5478] he sed] Q₁ Q₂. sed Q₃.

[5479] fire] Q₁ Q₂. om. Q₃.

[5480] word] Q₁ Q₃. world Q₂.

[5481] busied] Q₁ Q₂. troubled Q₃.

[5482] England] Q₁ Q₂. of England Q₃.

[5483] lawe of nature Q₁ Q₂. law, of nature Q₃.

[5484] Orphanes] Q₁ Q₂. orphants Q₃.

[5485] his] Q₁ Q₃. the Q₂.

[5486] he] Q₁. we Q₂ Q₃.

[5487] here is] Q₁ Q₂. heeres Q₃.

[5488] hapence] Q₁ Q₂. halfepence Q₃.

[5489] Gaptain] Q₁. Captaine Q₂ Q₃.

[5490] Iesus] Q₁ Q₂. Ieshu Q₃.

[5491] Rone] Q₁ Q₂. Rhone Q₃.

[5492] do] om. Q₂.

[5493] Enter Gower.] Q₁ Q₂. Enter Gower and Flewellen. Q₃.

[5494] very] vern Q₂.

[5495] Iesus] Q₁ Q₂. Ieshu Q₃.

[5496] a man] om. Q₃.

[5497] Godes] Q₁ Q₂. God's Q₃.

[5498] and] Q₁. an Q₂ Q₃.

[5499] hanged] Q₁ Q₂. hangd Q₃.

[5500] figa] Q₁ Q₂. a fig Q₃.

[5501] con] Q₁ Q₃. can Q₂.

[5502] like you now] Omitted in Q₃.

[5503] we here] Q₁ Q₂. here we Q₃.

[5504] abraided] Q₁ Q₂. upbraided Q₃.

[5505] her folly] Q₁ Q₃. our folly Q₂.

[5506] thy] Q₁ Q₃. the Q₂.

[5507] lessoned] Q₁. lessened Q₂ Q₃.

[5508] forgiue me God] Q₁ Q₂. God forgiue me Q₃.

[5509] Your heire] Q₁. This your heire Q₂. Your aire Q₃.

[5510] there is] Q₁ Q₂. there's Q₃.

[5511] will] Q₁ Q₃. shall Q₂.

[5512] a the] Q₁ Q₂. of the Q₃.

[5513] the praise] Q₁ Q₃. praise Q₂.

[5514] had had] Q₁. had Q₂ Q₃.

[5515] there is] Q₁. theres Q₂. there's Q₃.

[5516] a.] Q₁. & Q₂. om. Q₃.

[5517] Enter the King ...] Q₁ Q₃. Enter King ... Q₂.

[5518] Pist.] Q₁. om. Q₂ Q₃.

[5519] lewer] Q₁ Q₂. lower Q₃.

[5520] god] Q₁ Q₂. good Q₃.

[5521] ende] Q₁ Q₂. to an end Q₃.

[5522] may be] Q₁ Q₃. may Q₂.

[5523] as to] Q₁ Q₂. as vnto Q₃.

[5524] 3. Lord.] Q₁. 3. Soul. Q₂ Q₃.

[5525] on] Q₁ Q₂. is on Q₃.

[5526] he] om. Q₃.

[5527] 2. L.] Q₁. 2. Sol. Q₂. 2. Soul. Q₃.

[5528] your a nasse] Q₁. you are an asse Q₂. you are a nasse Q₃.

[5529] Here is] Q₁ Q₂. Here's Q₃.

[5530] assure] Q₁ Q₃. ile assure Q₂.

[5531] anow] Q₁ Q₂. enow Q₃.

[5532] Enter the King] Q₁ Q₂. Enter to the King Q₃.

[5533] There is] Q₁ Q₂. There's Q₃.

all are] Q₁ Q₂. are all Q₃.

[5534] rrue] Q₁. true Q₂ Q₃.

[5535] And ... While any speake] Q₁ Q₂. They were not there, when any speakes Q₃.

[5536] Saint] Q₁ Q₂. S. Q₃.

[5537] A] Q₁ Q₂. And Q₃.

[5538] are in the trim] Q₁ Q₃. within are trim Q₂.

[5539] soone] om. Q₂.

[5540] am] Q₁ Q₂. vm Q₃.

[5541] inough] Q₁ Q₂. enow Q₃.

[5542] the field] Q₁ Q₃. field Q₂.

[5543] bace] Q₁. base Q₂ Q₃.

[5544] him] om. Q₃.

[5545] fearkt] Q₁. ferke Q₂. fearke Q₃.

[5546] gage] Q₁ Q₂. gorge Q₃.

[5547] ma] Q₁ Q₃. may Q₂.

[5548] One ... foxe] Printed in italics in Q₂.

[5549] capataine] Q₁. captaine Q₂ Q₃.

[5550] Enter the King ...] Q₁. Enter the King with his Nobles, and Pistoll. Q₂. Enter the King, his Nobles, and Pistoll. Q₃.

[5551] all is] Q₁ Q₂. als Q₃.

yet keepe the French] Q₁ Q₂. the French keepes still Q₃.

[5552] also] om. Q₂.

[5553] hasted] Q₁ Q₂. wounded Q₃.

[5554] steept] Q₁ Q₂. all steept Q₃.

[5555] not] Q₁ Q₂. had not Q₃.

[5556] there is] Q₁ Q₂. there's Q₃.

[5557] Monmorth] Monmouth Q₃.

[5558] nat] not Q₃.

[5559] it is] tis Q₃.

[5560] is to my] is to Q₃.

[5561] Enter ...] Q₁. Enter the King and Lords. Q₂. Enter the King and his Lords. Q₃.

[5562] into] Q₁ Q₂. in Q₃.

[5563] not] Q₁ Q₃. nor Q₂.

[5564] Cryspin, Cryspin] Q₁ Q₂. Crispin, Crispianus Q₃.

[5565] take no] Q₁ Q₃. not Q₂.

[5566] Which] Q₁ Q₂. the which Q₃.

[5567] sworne] om. Q₃.

[5568] he keep] Q₁ Q₂. to keep Q₃.

[5569] littrature] Q₁ Q₂. litterature Q₃.

[5570] was]Q₁ Q₂. were Q₃.

[5571] off from his] Q₁ Q₂. from's Q₃.

[5572] do] Q₁ Q₂. om. Q₃.

[5573] should] Q₁ Q₂. wold Q₃.

[5574] Enter Gower,] Q₁ Q₂. Enter Captaine Gower, Q₃.

[5575] toward] Q₁ Q₂. towards Q₃.

[5576] Soul.] Flew. Q₂.

[5577] the the] Q₁. the Q₂ Q₃.

[5578] Gode] Q₁ Q₂. Gods Q₃.

his. Captain] Q₁ Q₂. his Captaine Q₃.

[5579] now, what is] Q₁ Q₂. new? Whats Q₃.

[5580] Maiestie] Q₁ Q₂. maiesty in person Q₃.

[5581] witnes] Q₁. witnesse Q₃. witnessess Q₃.

testimony] Q₁ Q₂. testimonies Q₃.

[5582] too] Q₁ Q₂. to Q₃.

[5583] in his] Q₁ Q₂. in's Q₃.

[5584] thou thou] Q₁. thou Q₂ Q₃.

[5585] as] Q₁ Q₂. but as Q₃.

[5586] mine] Q₁ Q₂. to mine Q₃.

[5587] seemed] seemed then to mee Q₃.

offence] offence, my gracious Lord Q₃.

[5588] shilling] Q₁ Q₂. silling Q₃.

[5589] serue you] Q₁ Q₃. serue Q₂.

[5590] Bowchquall] Q₁. Bouchquall Q₂ Q₃.

[5591] Constable] Constanble Q₃.

[5592] Here] Q₁. King. Here Q₂. King. Heeres Q₃.

[5593] Edward] Q₁. Exe. Edward Q₂ Q₃.

[5594] Omitted in Q₂.

[5595] other] Q₁ Q₂. the other Q₃.

[5596] O God] Q₁. King. O God Q₂ Q₃.

[5597] in euen] Q₁ Q₂. euen in Q₃.

[5598] God] Q₁ Q₂. O God Q₃.

[5599] day] om. Q₃.

[5600] could] Q₁ Q₃. would Q₂.

[5601] a comes] Q₁ Q₂. he comes Q₃.

Turkecocke] Q₁. Turkecock Q₂. Turky cocke Q₃.

[5602] stomacke] Q₁ Q₂. stomackes Q₃.]

appetite] Q₁ Q₂. appetites Q₃.

[5603] Bace] Q₁. Base Q₂ Q₃.

[5604] meane] But in the meane Q₃.

[5605] him] him, it is enough Q₃.

[5606] nights] nights too Q₃.

[5607] He makes Ancient Pistoll bite of the Leeke. Q₃.

[5608] There] Look you now, there Q₃.

shilling] silling Q₃.

[5609] ile] Q₁ Q₂. I will Q₃.

[5610] by] Q₁ Q₂. buy Q₃.

God bwy you] Q₁ Q₂. And so God be with you Q₃.

[5611] blesse] Q₁ Q₂. plesse Q₃.

[5612] huswye] Q₁ Q₂. huswife Q₃.

[5613] lines] Q₁ Q₂. loynes Q₃.

[5614] slyte] Q₁ Q₂. slight Q₃.

[5615] brorher] Q₁. brother Q₂ Q₃.

[5616] both] om. Q₃.

[5617] cursenary] Q₁ Q₂. cursorary Q₃.

[5618] Exit King ...] Q₁ Q₂. Exit French King ... Q₃.

Hrry,] Q₁. Harry, Q₂. King Henry, Q₃.

[5619] Hate.] Q₁. Kate. Q₂. Har. Q₃.

[5620] tis] Q₁ Q₂. it is Q₃.

[5621] it] om. Q₃.

[5622] Kate] Kate preethe tell me Q₃.

[5623] do you] Q₁ Q₂. dost thou Q₂.

[5624] the King] Q₁ Q₂. de King Q₃.

[5625] you] Q₁ Q₂. thee Q₃.

[5626] fouor] Q₁. fauor Q₂ Q₃.

[5627] en] Q₁ Q₂. in Q₃.

[5628] orered] Q₁ Q₂. ordered Q₃.

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FINIS.

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TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES

Made all corrections noted in ADDENDA AND CORRIGENDA on p. xv.

Retained line wrapping in plays to retain prose line numbering.

Converted linenotes to footnotes anchored at line ends.

Assigned anchors to linenotes lacking line references.

Retained incorrect line numbers, e.g. there are often more than 5 lines (or occasionally less than 5) between increments of 5.

Added missing line numbers.

Silently corrected simple spelling, grammar, and typographical errors.

Retained anachronistic and non-standard spellings as printed.

Enclosed distinctive font markup in ~tildes~.

Enclosed smaller font in +plus signs+.

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