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KING HENRY V.,

BY

WILLIAM SHAKSPERE.

THE FIRST QUARTO, l600,

A FACSIMILE

(FROM THE BRITISH MUSEUM COPY, C. 12, g. 22.) BY

CHARLES PRAETORIUS,

PHOTOGRAPHER TO THE BRITISH MUSEUM, ETC., ETC.

WITH AN INTRODUCTION

BY

ARTHUR SYMONS.

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LONDON :

Produced by C. PRAETORIUS, 14 Clareville Grove, Hereford Square, S.W.

1886.

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CONTENTS OF INTRODUCTION.

PAGE

§ I. Date of the Play iii

§2. Editions of the Play iii

§ 3. Is the Quarto Shakspere's First Sketch? Mr Daniel's Argument to

the contrary ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... iv

§ 4. Sources of the Play : Famous Victories ... ... ... ... ... vi

§5. Sources of the Play : Holinshed 's Chronicles ... ... ... ... xi

a. Reprint of Mr Stone's Summary ... ... ... ... ... xii

b. Notes on a few points ... ... ... ... ... ... xiv

§6. This Facsimile ; with a Postscript relating to Titus ... ... ... xvii

[Shakspert-Quarto Facsimiles, No. 27.]

Ill

INTRODUCTION.

§ i. The date of Henry V. is determined by an allusion in the chorus of Act V. (11. 30-34) :—

" Were now the general of our gracious empress, As in good time he may, from Ireland coming, Bringing rebellion broached on his sword, How many would the peaceful city quit To welcome him ! "

This is doubtless a reference to the Earl of Essex, who was sent over to Ireland in command of a large force against the rebel Earl of Tyrone in March, 1599. As Essex returned, not exactly "bringing rebellion broached on his sword," in September of the same year, the passage must have been written between the date of his depart- ure and that of his return. A reference in the Prologue to " this wooden O," that is, the Globe Theatre, " a large circular or poly- gonal building," erected in 1599, further points to that year as the date of the play's production. And Meres, who mentions Henry IV. in his Wit's Treasury, 1598, makes no allusion to Henry V.

§ 2. The first edition of the play is the Quarto " printed by Thomas Creede, for Tho. Millington and John Busby," and pub- lished in 1600. The second edition, "printed by Thomas Creede, for Thomas Pauier," 1602, is a mere reprint of the first. The third, "printed for T. P. 1608," is likewise printed from Quarto 1, but differs from it by a frequent rearrangement of the lines and an occasional alteration or addition of words. These changes, which are, however, of comparatively slight importance, will be marked in the margin of the facsimile of Quarto 3.

Unlike many of the Quartos, those of Henry V. have no value as regards correction of the Folio text. Three lines from them (Q. 1., II. i. 79, IV. iii. 43, and IV. v. 16) have been received, as Mr Daniel notes, into many modern editions. But it is doubtful whether even these three lines have any real authority. The Quarto text is a little less than half the length of the Folio ; it is without the choruses.-^ the first scene of Acts L and III, and the second of Act IV. are missing ; the fourth and fifth scenes of Act V. are transposed ; many of the finest speeches are wanting or largely curtailed ; the French of the English-lesson and wooing scenes is

IV IS THE QUARTO SHAKSPERE's FIRST SKETCH 1

turned into a medley bearing no resemblance to any possible language speakable by man ; all the prose is printed as if it were verse ; and the verse is frequently displaced and distorted. There is thus obviously no question as to the entire superiority of the Folio over the Quarto text. The question which arises, a question of no small importance, is — Does the Quarto represent the play as Shakspere first wrote it, and did he subsequently revise and enlarge it from this state to the state in which we find it in the Folio ; or is the Quarto merely a fraudulent and imperfect per-version of the original Folio text ?

§ 3. The more general opinion among the editors of Shakspere leans to the latter hypothesis. Knight very strongly, and some others with more or less confidence, contend that the Quarto represents, however imperfectly, Shakspere's first sketch of the play. But until the appearance of Mr P. A. Daniel's Introduction to Dr Nicholson's Parallel Text Edition (New Shakspere Society, 1877), the question was still open; no proof had been established on either side. Mr Daniel, however, has shown, on such strong presumptive evidence as to be virtually proof, that the Quarto is not the author's first sketch, but is an imperfect edition of a shortened acting version of the already existing Folio text. As Mr Daniel's arguments seem to me conclusive, and in need of no further strengthening, I have (with his kind permission) endeavoured to give the substance of them here. They will be found at length in the Introduction above referred to.

"The opinion I have formed," says Mr Daniel, " from a careful examination, line for line, of both texts is, that the play of 1599 (the Folio) was shortened for stage representation ; the abridgement done with little care, and printed in the Quarto edition with less, probably from an imperfect manuscript surreptitiously obtained, and vamped up from notes taken during the performance, as we know was frequently done. Indeed it is quite possible ' that the whole of the Quarto edition was obtained in this manner; and the fact that it is printed from beginning to end as verse would seem to lend some support to this conjecture. The fact also that the publishers of the Quarto were Millington and Busbie, and their successor Pavier, may of itself be taken as evidence that these plays are of doubtful authenticity."

This opinion Mr Daniel proceeds to support by two instances : " these being," in his opinion, " indisputable, will also," he presumes, " be considered sufficient ; for if in a single case it can be clearly

1 I venture to think quite probable. Such errors as "godly" for "idly," "the function " foi "defunction," &c, and the extraordinary hash of the French

scenes, point rather to misunderstanding of spoken than of written words. — A. S.

mr Daniel's argument to the contrary. v

proved, not that the Quarto is merely deficient in, but that it actually omits any portion of the Folio version, judgment may be allowed to pass on other places where the evidence is not of so convincing a character."

The two instances are Act I. sc. ii. (Quarto, 11/ 47-55, Folio 11. 67-91) and Act IV. sc. ii. (Folio). The first occurs in the passage where the Bishop of Canterbury is detailing the arguments in favour of Henry's claim to France. In Mr Daniel's words : " ' Hugh Capet also ' — says the Quarto. Why also ? There is nothing in the Quarto to account for this adverb. We turn to the Folio, and find that it is the case of King Pepin to which the Quarto refers, but which it omits. But this is not all ; in the Folio, after the case of Hugh Capet, there is next cited the case of King Lewes, who justified his possession of the crown as being descended from

'The daughter to Charles, the foresaid Duke of Loraine/

The Quarto, which also has this line, makes no previous mention of the foresaid Duke of Loraine. Again here is proof of omission. But still this is not all : the Quarto further, by its injudicious omissions, actually makes Hugh Capet, who deposed and murdered Charles of Loraine, fortify his title to the throne with the plea that he was descended from the daughter of this very Charles, con- founding at the same time this daughter of Charles of Loraine with the daughter of Charlemaine ; and then, rejoining the current of the Folio, with it, it sums up all the three cases of kings who claimed in ' right and title of the female,' of two of which it has no previous mention. I have not overlooked the fact," adds Mr Daniel, " that in this summing up the Quarto turns King Leives into King Charles, but this I look upon as a mere blunder, of no significance either for or against my argument ; it might be noticed as an instance of corruption on the part of the Quarto, but has nothing to do with the question of omission with which I am principally concerned."

Mr Daniel's second instance of omission is that of Act IV. sc. ii. The scene represents the French camp on the morning of Agincourt, and ends, with perfect appropriateness,

" Come, come away ; The sunne is high, and we out-weare the day."

This scene is totally absent from the Quarto. But at the end of Act III. sc. vii., representing the French camp on the previous night, and including the period of time between midnight, or just before (see 1. 97), and 2 a.m. (see 1. 168), occurs the couplet so appropriate in the morning scene, so comically inappropriate here —

Vi MR BANIEI/S ARGUMENT.

"Come, come away ; The sun is hie, and we weare out the day."

" Here surely," remarks Mr Daniel, " is a case from which we may infer that, at its best, Quarto i merely represents a version of the play shortened for the stage. The two scenes in the French Camp were to be cut down to one ; and the person who did the job, without perceiving the blunder he was committing, wanting a tag to finish off with, brought in the sun at midnight ! "

It will be generally felt, I imagine, that these two plain and undeniable instances (due to Mr Daniel's careful ingenuity) of omission on the part of the Quarto of lines or scenes found in the Folio, really settle, once and for all, the long-debated question of precedence. After this proof that the Folio version was in existence before the Quarto was printed, it is clearly impossible to consider the latter a " first sketch." One ventures to wonder how such a belief could ever have obtained at all. Is it credible that by 1599, that is, after writing plays for perhaps nine or ten years, Shakspere would have done no better than this, even in a " first draft " ? I at least cannot think so.

Though Mr Daniel's argument from omission seems sufficiently to settle the matter, he also brings forward in his Introduction to the Parallel Texts another consideration of some weight : that while certain historical errors are found in the Folio, these are absent from the Quarto. " We must therefore either believe that these errors were the result of the elaboration of the ' first sketch ' (the Quarto), or we must conclude that they were corrected in the 'shortened play ' (the Quarto)." Which accordingly Mr Daniel concludes. (See his Introduction, pp. xii, xiii.)

§ 4. The principal sources of the play are, primarily and passim, Holinshed's Chronicles ; secondly, and more slightly, the Famous Victories. Let us take the latter first.

The old black-letter play of 1598 — "The Famous Victories of Henry the Fifth : containing the Honourable Battell of Agincourt " — was licensed in 1594, and passed into a second edition in 16 17. It was printed by Thomas Creede, the printer of the Quarto of Henry V. Like Shakspere's play, it is without act or scene- division, and is vilely printed, in a supposedly metrical manner that one charitably hopes has deviated from the author's intentions. The play is reprinted in Nichols' Six Old Plays, etc., 1779, and again in Hazlitt's Shakespeare' s Library, Pt. II. vol. i. pp. 321-377. It is a dull, shapeless, senseless piece of work in the main ; abso- lutely without artistic or guiding quality, and consisting of generally witless comic scenes and usually spiritless serious scenes. But there is no doubt that the thing gave some hints to Shakspere — in Henry IV. as well as Henry V.

COMPARISON WITH THE FAMOUS VICTORIES (lIENRY V. ACT I.), vii

Up to p. 349 (that is, till nearly half way through the play) we hear only of events previous to the commencement of Henry V. On that page the Archbishop of Canterbury, rather abruptly, dashes into the arguments in favour of Henry's claim to France. What there may be here common to the two plays — little enough — is of course in both cases simply drawn from the same historical source.1 But I observe that in the Famous Victories the author makes the Earl of Oxford — and not, as Holinshed says, " the Duke of Excester, uncle to the King" — cite a certain " old saying" — "He that wil Scotland win, must first with France begin," and argue that Henry should first attack France ; while Shakspere, also deviating from Holinshed, puts the opposing argument, that Scotland should be first invaded, into the mouth of the Bishop of Ely.2 He conse- quently takes the other form of the old adage. Holinshed cites both : the latter as, " Who so will France win, must with Scotland first begin." 3 One can hardly doubt that Shakspere's choice of the alternative saying was due to his having the Famous Victories of 1598 under his eye.

The first material obligation of Shakspere to the writer of the Famous Victories occurs (a little further down) in connexion with the well-known " tennis-balls " scene. The incident is recorded in Holinshed ; but the following speech at least must have been in Shakspere's mind when he wrote the lines commencing — " We are glad the Dauphin is so pleasant with us " (I. ii. 259) :

"Henry V. My lord Prince Dolphin is very pleasant with me : But tell him, that in steed of balles of leather, We wil toss him balles of brasse and yron, Yea such balles as neuer were tost in France, The proudest Tennis Court shall rue it."— Hazlitt, p. 353.

Next in the play, after an incident in the story of the Lord

1 Holinshed, Ckron., hi. 546, col. i. (ed. 1586).

* Capell, following Holinshed, assigned this speech to Westmoreland, The prefix to I. ii. 166 in the Folio is Bisk. Ely.

3 " When the archbishop had ended his prepared tale, Rafe Neuill earle of Westmerland, and as then lord Warden of the marches against Scotland . . . thought good to mooue the king to begin first with Scotland, and therevpon declared how easie a matter it should be to make a conquest there, and how greatlie the same should further his wished purpose for the subduing of the Frenchmen, concluding the sumine of his tale with this old saieng : that Who so will France win, must with Scotland first begin.'" . .

" But after he had made an end, the Duke of Excester, vncle to the king . . . replied against the erle of Westmerlands oration, affirming rather that he which would Scotland win, he with France must first begin. For if the king might once compasse the conquest of France, Scotland could not long resist ; so that conquere France, and Scotland would soone obeie. —Holinshed, 111. p. 546/1.

Viii COMPARISON WITH THE FAMOUS VICTORIES (HENRY V. ACTS III., IV.).

Chief Justice who sent the young Harry to prison,1 and an irrelevant comic scene, the French King and his ministers are represented in debate on the war and embassage, in the midst of which a messenger from Harfleur enters, begging aid against the English for his " poore distressed Towne." In Act III. sc. iv. Shakspere has a passing reference to this embassy.

" Gov. [to Hen.] Our expectation hath this day an end : The Dauphin, whom of succours we entreated, Returns us, that his powers are yet not ready To raise so great a siege." — III. iii. 44-7.

Another matter only lightly referred to by Shakspere is in the Famous Victories more carefully emphasized. " Prince Dauphin," says the French King in Henry V. (III. v. 64), "You shall stay with us at Rouen." • "Not so, I do beseech your majesty," answers the Dauphin. " Ee patient," returns his father, " for you shall remain with us." In the old play this incident (mentioned in a few words in Holinshed) is expanded, not ineffectively, as follows :

" Dol. I trust your Maiestie will bestow, Some part of the Battel on me, I hope not to present any otherwise than well.

King. I tell thee my sonne, Although I should get the victory, and thou lose thy life, I should thinke my self quite conquered, And the English men to haue the victorie.

Dol. Why my Lord and father, I would haue that pettie king of England to know, That I dare encounter him in any ground of the world.

King. I know well my sonne, But at this time I will have it thus : Therefore come away." — Hazlilt, pp. 358-9.

I would remark in passing, that Shakspere's device of bringing French Katherine on the stage to talk broken English, might just possibly have been suggested by a scene in the Famous Victories (pp. 360-2), where some French soldiers, talking among themselves, jabber in a sort of nigger-English — "Awee, awee, awee, Me wil tell you what," and so forth — to convey the idea, I suppose, that they are foreigners. There is talk among these soldiers of the "braue apparel" they look to win from the English, and one of them says, " We haue bene troing on shance on the Dice, but none can win the king." The dicing for the English is common to both Shakspere and the Chronicles ; as is also the opinion that English- men can fight well only when they have plenty of beef to eat and

1 See a paper read before the Historical Society in Nov. 18S5, proving the impossibility of this incident, and giving the earlier instance on which the tradi- tion was founded. The paper establishes the high character of Prince Hal.

COMPARISON WITH THE FAMOUS VICTORIES: WOOING-SCENB.

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plenty of ale to wash it down with. The Famous Victories follows Hall almost literally :

"Why take an English man out of his warme bed And his stale drinke, but one moneth, And alas what will become of him?" — Hazlitt, p. 362. *

Other coincidences there are between Henry V. and the Famous Victories — as in the account of the Herald sent from the French king before the battle, to treat of ransom, and Henry's proud answer to him ; and again Henry's inquiry after the battle as to the name of the village hard by ; but the incidents are to be found in the Chronicles.

Mr Stone {Introduction, p. xl) is of opinion that the episode of Pistol and the French soldier (IV. iv.) might have been suggested by a scene in the Famous Victories (pp. 368-9). If so, Shakspere has certainly made a great deal out of a very little ; for the scene is very short, and the humour very thin. Derrick, a comic character, is taken prisoner by a Frenchman during the battle. The French- man asks 400 crowns as ransom. Derrick promises him as many crowns as will lie on his sword: the Frenchman lays it down on the ground, and Derrick, snatching it up, puts him to flight.

Passing over an unintentionally comic scene between the French and English Kings, — who call one another at every sentence " My good brother of England," " My good brother of France," — we come to the famous wooing-scene, from which Shakspere has taken more hints than perhaps from all the rest of the play put together. I will give it in the text, for jt is very short. It will thus be evident that Shakspere is really beyond doubt indebted to this old lumbering play ; it will equally be seen how greatly he has refined and expanded his material.

Enter Lady Katheren and her Ladies.

[Hen V.\ But here she comes: How now faire Ladie Katheren of France, What newes ?

Kathren. And it please your Maiestie, My father sent me to know if you will debate any of these Vnreasonable demands which you require.

Hen. V. Now trust me Kate, I commend thy fathers wit greatly in this, For none in the world could sooner haue made me debate it If it were possible: But tell me sweete Kate, canst thou tell how to loue ?

1 Hall's words are: "For you must vnderstand, y' kepe an Englishman one moneth from his warme bed, fat befe and stale drynke, and let him that season tast colde and suffre hunger, you shall then se his courage abated, his bodye waxeleaneand bare, and euer desirous to returne into his owne countrey. Hall, p. 66 (quo. in Stone's Introduction to Henry V.).

X COMPARISON WITH THE FAMOUS VICTORIES: WOOING-SCENE.

Kate. I cannot hate my good Lord, Therefore far vnfit were it for me to loue.

Hen. V. Tush Kate, but tell me in plaine termes, Canst thou love the King of England ? I cannot do as these Countries do, That spend half their time in woing: Tush wench, I am none such, But wilt thou go ouer to England ?

Kate. I would to God, that I had your Maiestie, As fast in loue, as you haue my father in warres, I would not vouchsafe so much as one looke, Vntill you had i-elated all these vnreasonable demands.

Hen. V. Tush Kate, I know thou wouldst not vse me so hardly : But tell me, canst thou loue the King of England?

Kate. How should I loue him, that hath dealt so hardly With my father?

Hen. V. But ile deale as easily with thee, As thy heart can imagine, or tongue can require, How saist thou, what will it be?

Kate. If I were of my owne direction, I could giue you answere : But seeing I stand at my fathers direction, I must first know his will.

Hen. V. But shal I haue thy good wil in the mean season ?

Kate. Whereas I can put your grace in no assurance, I would be loth to put you in any dispaire.

Hen. V, Now before God, it is a sweete wench.

She goes aside and speaks as folloiveth.

Kat. I may thinke my selfe the happiest in the world, That is beloued of the mighty King of England.

Hen. V. Well, Kate, are you at hoast with me ? Sweete Kate, tel thy father from me, That none in the world could haue perswaded me to It then thou, and so tel thy father from me.

Kate. God keepe your Maiestie in good health. Exit Kat.

Hen. V. Farvvel sweet Kate, in faith it is a sweet wench, But if I knew I could not haue her fathers good wil, I would so rowse the Towers ouer his eares, That I would make him be glad to bring her me, Vpon his hands and knees. Exit King.

Hazlitt, pp. 370-2.

But for this last speech, there is something rather good about the scene. Katherine's business-like practicality and persistence, her evident partiality for the King, — held in check, however, and decidedly dominated by filial obedience and the interests of her father, — her frank confession of this partiailty to herself, and her charming and quaint modesty in showing it to the King, —

" Whereas I can put your grace in no assurance, I would be loth to put you in any dispaire," —

all this is well and brightly brought out by the old playwright.

holixshed's chronicles.

XI

Shakspere has chosen to represent his Katherine as a less practical and more timid-minded lady : Henry in both plays has a very similar character and style, though in Shakspere's one is glad to see his manners are decidedly improved. At least he is guilty of no such vulgar insolence as in the famous Victories escapes his lips as soon as the lady's back is turned. Besides the general similarity of the two scenes, it will be noticed that Shakspere has not disdained to borrow, in one or two instances, almost the very words — certainly the very ideas — of his predecessor. (See especially Henry V., Act V. sc. ii. 11. 178-9, 267, and 301-6; also 148-150, and thereabouts, in connection with Henry's third speech in Famous Victories, above.)

Passing over a comic scene, we come to the conclusion of the Famous Victories. In this final scene, besides the political business, the wooing is concluded in very summary fashion. Henry, after stipulating for certain agreements, says he must require one thing more — "a trifle," he gallantly adds: that is, he means to marry Katherine.

" How saist thou Kate, canst thou Ioue the King of England ? "

Like Shakspere's Katherine, she answers, —

"How should I loue thee, which is my fathers enemy?"

Henry replies, with more truth than courtesy, that he knows she is not a little proud that he loves her. "Agree to it," says the French king ; and Kate, nothing loth, coolly replies, —

" I had best while he is willing, Least when I would, he will not."

Whereupon Henry names the day — just like a country bumpkin — "the first Sunday of the next moneth, God willing;" and so sound trumpets, exeunt omnes, and the play ends.

§ 5. We now come to Shakspere's principal authority, Holinshed ; and here I must acknowledge my indebtedness to Mr W. G. Stone, in whose elaborate Introduction to the revised edition of Henry V. (New Shakspere Society, Series II. No. 10) I have found ready to my hand a most careful comparison, scene by scene, almost line by line, of Shakspere's play with Holinshed's Chronicles. This comparison, extending over upwards of fifty pages, is summarized by Mr Stone on pp. liv — lvi in so close and admirable a manner that I cannot resist the temptation of "conveying" it to my own pages verbatim. Those who have Mr Stone's volume by them will not, I hope, be sorry to meet with his Summary here ; while to any who have not that privilege, the Summary will certainly be welcome.

Xll HOLINSHED : MB STONE S SUMMARY.

After giving it, and thus laying the whole position clearly before our eyes, in at once the most condensed and the most complete way, I shall note a few of what seem to me to be the most note- worthy matters in relation to Shakspere's art which arise from this glimpse of his manner of dealing with his subject.

I should mention that Mr Stone comprises in his Summary not only Shakspere's obligations to Holinshed, but his obligations to, or coincidence with, all other authorities, including, of course, the Famous Victories. As my comparison of this play with Shakspere has been made independently of Mr Stone's, the references may possibly not be in all cases quite the same.

" Summary of Results. — Prologue. Act I. 11. 5-8 (Henry and the dogs of war), Chronicles.

Act I. sc. i. 11. 9-19 (Confiscation bill), Chronicles ; — 11. 75-81, and Act I. sc. ii. 11. 132-135 (the clergy's subsidy), Chronicles.

Act I. sc. ii. 11. 33-100 (Chicheley's speech), Chronicles. In 11. 69-71 (Hugh Capet's title) the Chronicles have been copied almost verbatim;— \. 77 (Lewis X.), Chronicles; Hall, Lewis IX.; — 1. 86 (simile of the summer's sun), Chronicles ; — 11. 98-100 (citation from Numbers xxvii. 8), Chronicles; — 11. 108-110, and Act II. sc. iv. 11. 57-62 (Edward III. at Cre'cy), Chronicles; — 11. 167, 168 (Westmore- land's adage), Chronicles ; — 11. 180-183 (Exeter's speech. Harmony in a state), Cicero Be Republica ; — 11. 183-204 (Chicheley's bee simile), Lyly's Euphues ; — 11. 254-266 (Tennis-balls' story), Chronicles; Famous Victories of Henry V. ; — 1. 282 (the gun-stones), Caxton's Chronicles.

Prologue. Act II. 1. 6, 'the mirror of Christendome.' — Hall ; — 11. 8-10 (Expectation), woodcut of Edward III. in the Chronicles; — 11. 20-30 (Cambridge's conspiracy), Chronicles.

Act II. sc. ii. 1. 8 ; 11. 96, 97; 11. 127-137 (Henry's confidence in Scrope), Chronicles; — 11. 155-157 (Cambridge's ambitious designs), Chronicles ; — 11. 166-188 (Henry's addresses to the conspirators and to his nobles), Chronicles.

Act II. sc. iv. (the first French council of war), Chronicles; Famous Victories; — 11. 102-109 (Exeter's speech) are based on the Chronicles; — 1. 102, 'in the bowels of Jesus Christ,' Chronicles. Shakspere has altered the date of Exeter's embassy from February to August, 141 5.

Prologue. Act III. 11. 28-31 (the Archbishop of Bourges's embassy), Chronicles. ' The ambassador from the French' (1. 28) is Exeter, whom Shakspere substituted for the Archbishop.

Act III. sc. ii. 11. 58-70 (siege operations at Harfleur conducted by Gloucester. The countermines), Chronicles.

Act III. sc. iii. 11. 44-58 (surrender of Harfleur. Harfleur entrusted to Exeter. Sickness in the French army. The march

HOLINSHED : MR STONE 3 SUMMARY. xiii

to Calais resolved on). In 11. 46, 47, from ' that his powers,' to ' great a siege,' the Chronicles have been copied almost verbatim.

Act III. sc. v. (the second French council of war), Chronicles. The speeches are Shakspere's. For 1. 1 (passage of the Somme) ; — 11. 40-45 (Roll of the French nobles); — 11. 54, 55 (the captive chariot for Henry V.) ; — and 1. 64 (the Dauphin detained at Rouen) the Chronicles are his authority.

Act III. sc. vi. 11. 1-12, and 11. 94-100 (defence of the bridge over the Ternoise), Chronicles ; — 11. 41, 42, and 11. 105, 106 (execution of a soldier for stealing a pyx), Chronicles ; — 11. 113-118 (Henry's disciplinary regulations), Chronicles ; — 11. 149- 151, 169- 174 (Henry's answer to Montjoy), Chronicles; — 11. 170, 171, 'I die your tawnie ground with your red bloud,' Chronicles ; — 1. 167 (money given to Montjoy), Chronicles. Montjoy's defiance was delivered after the passage of the Somme, according to the Chronicles.

Act III. sc. vii. (the French nobles' swaggering talk), suggested by the Chronicles ; — II. 93, 94, and Prol. Act IV. 11. 18, 19 (the French cast dice for the English), Chronicles ; — 11. 135, 136, and Prol. Act IV. 11. 5-7 (distance between the two camps), according to the Chronicles, about 250 paces; — 11. 161- 166 (Englishmen can't fight if deprived of their beef), Hall; i Henry VI; King Edward III.; and Famous Victories; — 11. 168, 169 (Orleans's boast). According to the Chronicles, the French were drawn up ready for battle between 9 and 10 a.m.

Prologue. Act IV. 11. 8, 9 (the watch fires), Chronicles /— 11. 22-28 (sickly r.spect of the English), Chronicles.

Act IV. sc. i. 1. 312 (re-interment of Richard's body), Chronicles ; — 11. 315-319 (Henry's alms-deeds and chantries), Fabyan; Stow; possibly Caxton's Chronicles also.

Act IV. sc. ii. 11. 60-62 (the Constable's guidon), Chronicles. This story is told of Antony, Duke of Brabant.

Act IV. 6C. hi. 1. 3 (number of the French), Chronicles ; — 11. 16- 18 (Westmoreland's wish), Chronicles, where the wish is attributed to 'one of the host' ;— 11. 20-67 (Henry's answer to Westmoreland) differs entirely from the Chronicles' version, except in 11. 20, 21; — 11. 79-81 (Henry's ransom demanded), Chronicles. According to the Chronicles ', a herald was sent; — 11. 122, 123 (the French shall have naught save Henry's dead body), Chronicles ; — 11. 129-132 (command of the vaward given to York), Chronicles.

Act IV. sc. iv. (Pistol and the French soldier), Famous Victories ; perhaps the Chronicles also.

Act IV. sc. vi. 11. 36-38 (massacre of the prisoners), Chronicles.

Act IV. sc. vii. 11. 1-10 (a raid on the English baggage the cause of the massacre), Chronicles ;— 11. 59-68 (remnant of the French host ordered to depart), Chronicles ; — 11. 74-94 (Montjoy asks leave to

XIV nOLINSHED AND TIIE PLAY : NOTES ON A FEW POINTS.

bury the dead. Henry's talk with Montjoy), Chronicles ;— 11. 161, 162 (Henry's encounter with Alengon), Chronicles.

Act IV. sc. viii. 11. 81-105 (lists of the French taken captive or slain), the Chronicles have been followed very closely; — 11. 1 08-1 n (the English losses), Chronicles. Shakspere has taken the lowest estimate; — 1. 128 (thanksgiving for the victory), Chronicles.

Prologue. Act V. 11. 9-1 1 (Henry's reception on landing), perhaps from Stow; 11. 12, 13 (the homeward voyage). The turbulent sea, which, according to the Chronicles, Henry encountered, may be alluded to here ; — 11. 16-28 (Henry's reception on Blackheath. His humility), Chronicles; — 11. 38, 39 (the emperor Sigismund's mission of peace), Chronicles.

Act V. sc. ii. 11. 5-7 (the meeting at Troyes brought about by Philippe le Bon), Chronicles ; — 11. 68-71 (Henry's conditions of peace), perhaps suggested by the Chronicles ; — 11. 98-306 (the wooing scene), Fa?nous Victories. Special resemblances may be traced in 11. 149, 150 (Henry's lack of eloquence); 11. 178, 179 (Katherine says she can't love the national foe); 1. 267 (she's at her father's disposal) ; and 11. 301-306 (her influence over Plenry) ; — 11. 142-145 (Henry's agility), Chronicles ; — 11. 364-370 (Henry styled Hozres Francice), Chronicles ; — 11. 399, 400 (oath of the French nobles), Chronicles.

Dramatis Persons. Act HI. sc. vi. (Exeter). According to the Chronicles, ' certeine captains ' were sent to secure the bridge.

Act IV. The Chronicles do not record that Bedford, Westmore- land, Warwick, and Salisbury were present at Agincourt ; they make Exeter present at the battle.

Act V. sc. ii. Exeter was, according to the Chronicles, present at the Meulan conference in 141 9. They make Clarence and Gloucester, Warwick and Huntingdon present at Troyes in 1420. Westmoreland's presence, either at Meulan or Troyes, is not mentioned in the Chronicles!1

It will be seen from the foregoing table, Firstly, that Shakspere used Holinshed's Chronicles as his authority, although taking at times hints from other sources. This is proved, not merely from a general resmeblance, but by frequent verbal coincidence, and by a reproduction of Holinshed's errors. For instance, Act I. sc. i;. 11. 69-71, which read thus, —

" Hugh Capet also — who usurped the crown Of Charles the duke of Loraine, sole heir male Of the true line and stock of Charles the Great," —

are almost literally copied from the account in the Chronicles: " Hugh Capet also, who vsurped the crowne vpon Charles duke of Loraine, the sole heir male of the line and stocke of Charles

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the great" (ch. 546). A few lines further down, in I. 77, Shakspere has Lewis the Tenth for Lewis the Ninth. This error is derived from Holinshed, who inaccurately gives the former.

Secondly, we see the minute and careful nature of Shakspere's study of the Chronicles, and the dramatic genius with which he turned to his purpose, and vivified, the slightest hints. The striking metaphor contained in the following lines (Prol. of Act II. 11. 8-10) :—

" For now sits Expectation in the air ; And hides a sword, from hilt unto the point, With crowns imperial, crowns, and coronets," —

a metaphor which any one would feel safe in assigning to Shakspere's imagination alone — is apparently a reminiscence of the woodcut of Edward III. in the first edition of the Chronicles. " The king there appears," says Mr Stone, "bearing a sword, encircled near the point by two crowns." A subtler instance of Shakspere's intuitive and vivifying power is found in Henry's passionate and fearful appeal on the eve of Agincourt to the heaven whose justice had been outraged in Richard's death, and his foreboding sight of the Nemesis which should avenge his father's fault :

"Not to-day, O Lord, O, not to-day, think not upon the fault My father made in compassing the crown ! " — (IV. i. 309-311).

Compare wTith this the Chronicles' comment on Henry's speech to the treasonous lords : " This doone, the king thought that suerlie all treason and conspiracie had beene vtterly extinct : not suspect- ing the fire which was newlie kindled, and ceassed not to increase, till at length it burst out into such a flame, that catching the beames of his house and familie, his line and stocke was clean consumed to ashes " (ch. 548).

The appropriate ending which poor Bardoph 1 has in the play was suggested to Shakspere by a simple sentence in the Chronicles (ch. 552) : " A souldier tooke a pix out of a church, for which he was apprehended, and the king not once remooued till the box was restored, and the offendor strangled." A similar instance of art in

1 While this is passing through the press, a very curious fact has come to light relating to the name of Bardolph, and Shakspere's probable reason for choosing it. In a letter which Dr Furnivall has just received from Mr Wentworth Huyshe, of Lagham Park, Surrey, Mr Huyshe states that in the church of Lingfield, near Godstone, is the tomb, with effigies in alabaster, of Sir Reginald Cobham and his wife Anne Bardolf. "May not Shakspeare," he suggests, "while first writing Henry IV., have been aware of the alliance of the houses of Cobham and Bardoph ; and, in assigning names to the followers of Oldcastle (Falstaff), have adopted that of Bardolph for one of them from the fact of his knowledge of that alliance ?"

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realizing a hint and working it into the dramatic action is found in Henry's words to the herald (III. vi. 167), " There's for thy labour, Montjoy." Montjoy, say the Chronicles, was dismissed with "a princelie reward." Better still is the last example which I shall give. At the beginning of the first scene of Act IV. Henry greets Sir Thomas Erpingham in the three charming lines :

"Good morrow, old Sir Thomas Erpingham : A good soft pillow for that good white head Were better than a churlish turf of France."

The old knight so livingly brought before us in the few lines of this brief scene is another of Shakspere's loans from Holinshed. When the English army advanced to the attack on the morning of Agincourt, there went before them, say the Chronicles (ch. 554), " An old knight sir Thomas Erpingham (a man of great experience in the warre) with a warder in his hand ; and when he cast up his warder, all the armie shouted," &c.

Thirdly, we see that Shakspere, while following usually the strict outlines of history, and vivifying these by his own dramatic genius, was ready, on occasion, to depart from history for the sake of artistic effect. The siege of Harfleur, for instance, was con- ducted chiefly by mining operations. Shakspere, however, repre- sents Henry (Act III. sc. i.) as leading on his soldiers to the assault : for by so doing he finds place for a piece of warlike rhetoric which could only be uttered on such an occasion — the vivid and rousing speech commencing —

"Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more."

A still more remarkable instance of Shakspere's readiness to sacri- fice strict historic accuracy to right dramatic effect is found in the great speech in Act IV. sc. iii. 11. 18-67. The point of this speech is, that the King is content to have no greater army than he has, because, if he wins with so small a number, " the fewer men, the greater share of honour." Now Mr Stone has pointed out that in the speech ascribed to Henry in Holinshed (from which, indeed, Shakspere has taken a single line and a half), it is Henry's religious faith — " let no man ascribe victorie to our owne strength and might, but onelie to God's assistance" — that is specially given as the reason of his contentment. It seems at first sight curious that Shakspere, who in so many parts of the play has so strongly indicated Henry's piety, should here deliberately set aside this motive, to replace it by a solely patriotic and chivalrous enthusiasm. But the reason suggested by Mr Stone is probably the right one. Shakspere's Henry has in him both the religious and the chivalrous

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e is made from the copy of the original in the 12, g. 22). The acts, scenes, and lines are

element. Each becomes prominent on a suitable occasion. On the night before the battle, when anxious and reflective, Henry's piety inspires in him the deeply religious words which Shakspere puts in his mouth. Here, where the martial spirit bears sway, and where he wishes to infuse the same ardour into the hearts of his hearers, Henry speaks as a soldier, and a soldier only. "The Holinshed speech," as Mr Stone says, "resembles some sermons; the sentiments are pious, but they do not rouse a spirit of religious enthusiasm. Finding the speech wanted energy enough to produce this state of feeling, Shakspere laid it aside entirely, and constructed one which appealed to other influences — the love of hard fighting, the point of honour, and the spirit of chivalrous self-devotion."

Other striking examples of Shakspere's invention — though not in these cases in actual contrast with the historical facts — are the long speech in Act II. sc. ii. 11. 79-144 (for which there is only precedent in the Chronicles to the amount of about 16 lines), and the speeches in Act II. sc. iv., which (11. 102-109 excepted) are entirely imaginary.

§ 6. This facsimi British Museum (c.

numbered in the outer margin according to the Globe edition ; the Quarto scenes and lines are marked on the inner margin. Lines which differ in Quarto and Folio are indicated by a dagger [t] ; lines found only in Quarto by a star [*] ; lines omitted in Quarto by a caret [<]. The prose scenes, properly so printed in Folio, are in the Quarto invariably broken up into verse. I have not, in marking the text, considered this as a difference; for to do so would be to mark every line.

I take this opportunity of giving the true facts in relation to the blemish on p. 23 of the Facsimile of Titus A?idronicus, recently issued, about which there has been an unfortunate confusion. As soon as the blemish was discovered, a Notice was sent to the binders, giving the proper fcrm of the lines in question. But it was then supposed, and consequently stated in the notice, on the authority of the photographer, that the fault lay with the original. Reference to that original, however, shows us that this is not the case. The original has been torn, and then mended by a slip of thin paper pasted over, leaving the letters, however, quite decipherable, though the camera failed to reproduce them. Most unfortunately, and much to my regret, this fact was overlooked in making the fac- simile.

Arthur Symons.

Dec. 19, 1885.

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SHall I call in Thambafladors my Liege? King. Not yet my Coufin,til wc be refolude Of fome ferioos matters touching vs and France. Bi. God and his Angels guard your (acred throne, And make you Ion© become it.

King. Shurc we thank you. And good my Lord proceed Why the Lavwe Salicke which they bauc in France, Or fhould orfhou!dnot,ftopvsinourclayme: And God forbid my \v He and learned Lord, That you (houid fafliion,{rame,or wrefl the fame. For God doth know how many now in health, Shall drop their blood in approbation, Of what your reuerence fliall incite vs too* Therefore take heed how you impawneour perfon. How ypu awake the fleeping fwordof warre : We charge you in the namc^ of God take heed. After this coniuration,ff eake my Lord c And we will »udge,notCjand bclecuc in heart, That what you fpeakcpswaiht as pure As fin in baptiune.

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Then heare me gracious foueraignc,and you peere;}

Which owe your Iiues,your faith and fcruiccs

To this imperial! throne.

There is no bar to ftay your highneflTe claime to Frame

But onc,which they produce from Faramohnt,

No female /hall fucceed in falicke land,

Which falicke land the French vniuftly gloze

To be the rcalme of Trance:

And Faramont the founder of this law and female banes

Yet their owne writers faithfully atfirme

That the land falicke lyes in Germany,

Between e the flouds of SabrckjmA of Elme,

Where fcharlet the fifthauingfubdude the Saxons,

There left behind, and fctled ccr.ainc French,

Who holding in difdainc the Germainc women*

For Co me da fhoneft maners of their hues,

Eftablifht there this lawc.To wit,

No female (hall fucceed in falicke land:

Whichfalicke land as I faid before,

3s at this time in Germany called Mefenet

Thus doth it well appeare the falicke lawe

Was not deuifed for the realme of France,

Nor did the French pofTeflc the falicke bud,

Vnlill 4OO oneand twemjeycares.

After the function ofkmgFaramenti

Godly fuppofed the founder of this lawe:

Hugh Capet alfo that vfurpt the crownc,

To fine his title with fome fhowc of truth,

When in pure truth it was corrupt and naught:

Coftuaidhimrelrcas hcire to the Lady Jnger,

Daughter to Char/es,tbc forefaid Duke ofLerain,

So that as cleaie as is the fommcrsSun,

King Pippins title and Hugh Capets claime,

King fcharUi his~fatislaction all appeare,

To hold in right and title oi the ferrule:

So do the Lords of France vn til this day,

Howbcit they would hold vp this falick lawe

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To fear yottr htghnefTe claiming from the female, az And rather choole to hide them in a net,

Then amply to imbace their crooked caufes, + Vfurpt from you and your progenitors, (claimed

K, May we with right & confeience make this set

2ft, The fin vpon my head dread foueraigne. For in the booke of Numbers is it writ,

When the fonne dies,lct the inheritance +

Defcend vnto the daughter. too f

Noble Lord (land for your o wnc, *

Vn winde your bloody flaggc, +

Go my dread Lord to your great graunfirs gratte, %

From whom you clay me : m < And your great Vnclc £dw*rdthc blacke Prince, yz Whoon the French ground playd a Tragedy Making defeat on the full power of Franct,

Whileft his molt mighty father on a hill, /osf Stood fmiling ro behold his Ly ns whelpe,

Foraging blood of French Nobil 1 1 ie. + O Noble Englifh that could eotertaine

With halfe their Forces the full power of Frvww : uz f And let an other fialfc ftand laughing by, 8c All out of woike,and cold for acYion.

King. We muft not onely armc vs againft the French, ass f

But lay downe our proportion for the Scot, *

Who will make rode vpon vs with all aduanf ages. +

Tti. The Marches gracious foucraigne , fhalbe fufficienf no*

To gur.rdy our EngUfidii om the pilfering borderers. *

King, We do not meane the courting fneakcrs onely , *

But feare the maync entendement of the Scot, w

For you fball read, ncucr my great grandfather +

Vnmaskt his power for Franc*, +

Bur that the Scot on his vnfurniflit Kingdome, l48

Came pouring like the Tide into a breach <

That England being empty o( defences, +

Hath fliookeand trembled at the brute hereof. t

Bi, She hath bin then more fearedthen hurt my Lord: +

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For heare her but ctfamplified by her felfc, When all her chiualry hath bene in Trance

And (lie a mourning widow of her Nobles*

She hath her felfc not only well defended,

But taken and impounded as a ftray,the king of Scots,

Whom like a caytirTc fhe did leadc to France,

Filling your Chronicles as rich with praife

As is the owfc and bottome of the fea

With funken wrack and fliipletTetrcafurie. Lord. There is a faying very old and true,

XfyouwW France win,

Then with Sccc/andfaft begin :

Foronce the Ea»lc,England being in pray*

To his vnfurnifh neft the weazel Scot

Would fuck her egs,playing the moufe in abfence of the

To fpoylcand hauock more then (he can ear. (cats

Exe. It followes then, the cat mutt Hay at home, Ytftfhat is but acurft ncceiTitic, Since we haue trappes to catch the petty theeues: Whilfte that the armed hand doth fi^ht abroad Theaduifed head controlles at home. Forgouernment though high or lowc, being put info parts, Congrueth with a mutuall confent like mu'/cke.

*Bu True: therefore dotrrhcauen diuidc the fate of mala in diuers f un$hom Whefcro is added as an ay me or bur,obcdiencc: For fo hue the honey Bees,creaf ures that by awe Ordajjne an a& of order to a peopeld Kingdome: They haue a King and officers of fort, Where fome like Magiftratcs correct at home: Others like Marchants venture trade abroad: Others like fouldicrs armed in their flings, Makcboote vpon thefommets veluetbud : Which pillage they with mery march bring home To the tent royall of their Rinperour, Who buried in his maicitic, behold The finging raafons building roofes of gold :

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The chietl citizens lading vp the honey, _»«+

The fad eydeluftice withhis furly huaime,

Deliuertng vp to executors pale ,the lazy caning Drone,

This 1 mfer,that 20. aclions once a foot e,

May all end in one moment.

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As many feuerall way es meete in one towne : t

As many Irefh ftreames run in one felfc fca: t

As many lines ciofc in the dy all center: +

So may a thoufand actions once a foote,

E nd in one momenta nd he all well borne without detect, ' J

Therefore my Liege to France, f

Diuide your happy England into foore,

Of which take you one quarter into France,

Andy ou wit hall, ilia 11 make all Gallia make*

If we with thrice that power left at home, *

Cannot defend our owne doore from the dogge, t

Let vs be bcatcn,and from henceforth iofe +

The name of pollicy andhardincllc. 220+

Kf. Call in the mctTenger fent fro the Dolphin* +

And by your ayde,ihe noble fincwes of our land, +

isa. France being ours, wceie bring it to our awe, 2 24 *

Or break e it all in peeces: _ *

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Freely of our ac^s, +

Or clfe like tbongleilc routes

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For we heare your comming is from him. 236 1

Antbafia. P leafeth your M aicftie to giuc vs leauc *

Freely to render what we haue in charge ; Or mail I fpanngly ftiewa farre off, The Dolphins pleasure and our Erobaflage ?

King. W e are no ty rancbuta Chtiftian King, To whom our fpirit Rasiubicet, As areouiyffefches fettered in our prifons* .

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Therefore freely and with vnturbed boldaeffe TeH vs the Dolphins minde.

-Amhaf. Then this in fine the Dolphin faith, Whereas you clay me cert a i nc Townes in Francet From your prcdecc (Tor king Edward the third, Thishereturnes.

He faith, rheres nought in France that can be with a nimble Galliard wonne : you cannot rcucl into Dukcdomes there: Therefore he (cndcthmcetcffor your ftudy. This tunne of trcafure : and in lieu of this, Detircs to let the Dukedomes that you craue Hcarc no more from you : This the Dolphin faith. Ktng, VVhattreafurcVflclc? Exe. Tennis baUes my Liege. King, We arc glad the Dolphin is fo pteafant withvs. Your meflagc and his prefent we accept : When vvc haee matched our rackcrs to chefc bailes* We will by GooVgrace p'ay fuch a fer, Shall flnkehisfathcwcrownc mto the hazard. Teli him he batrmr.de a match with fuch a wrangler, Tharall the Courrsof France (hall be ddturbd wiUi chafes* And we vnderftand him wett,how he comes ore vs With our wilder dayts,not meafutoig; what 'vie we made

of them. We neuer valued this poore feafe of England. And therefore gauc our felues to barbarous licence: As ti« common (cene that men are mcrricfl whentheyare

from home* But tell the Dolphin we will kcepe our ftatc, Belikca King,mighttcandcoromaund, When we do rowfe vs in throne of France? Fordiis bane we bio by our Maicitic And pfcddcd hdea man for workiagdayes. But we will nfe.thcre with 10 full of glory, That we wiK dbzcli all the eyes of Frmct^ 1 0 like the Dolphin bli nde to looke on vs. (flbnes

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(vengeance That {frail flyc from them. For this his mocke Shall tnocke many a wife out of their dearc husbands. Mocke mother.; from their fonnes,mocke Caftles dcwnef 3 (bme are yet vngotten and vnbome, That (hall hauecaufeto curfe the Dolphins fcorne. Bat this lyes all within the will of God) to whom we doo

(appcalc, And in whofe name tel you the Dolphin we are coming on To venge vs as we may , and to put forth out hand In a rightful! caufc: fogec vou hence, and tell you? Prince, His left will fauour but of (hallow wit, When thoufands weepe,more then did laugh at it. Conuey them with (afe conduct : fee them hence.

Bxe. This wasa merry meilage.

Kt*p We hope to make the fender blufh at if : Therrore let our colle&io for the wars be foone proui Jed: for God before, weell check the Dolphin at his fathers

(doofft Therefore let every man now taske hh thought. That this faite action may on foote be brought,

Exmniomnes.

ScjL J^rNimWBaydoIfe.

Ear. Godmorrow Corporall Nim» N*m. Godmorrow \Mhcr\znt Sardoife. *Bar4 What is antient Pi&etimd thee friends yec i Ntm. Jcannottell|thmg5muitbeastheyniay: I dare not fight,but I will winkc and hold out m»neIron : Itisafirnplcone,but wbattho ;it will feme to toftechcefc And it will endure cold as an ether maosfwosd will. And thrres the humor of if. 3*r, Yfeithmrftrefte quickly did thee gf eat wrong, - For thou weat rtiocb pital.* to her.

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Bar, Come y faith,Ilebcftow a brcakfaft to make Piftitt And thee friendes. What a plague ihould we carrie knmes To cut our owne throates.

iViw.Yfairh He Hue as longasImay,trrats the cettame of it. And when I caanot hue any longer, He do as I may, And chercsmy refund therandeuousof it*

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Hofi. No by my troath not I, For we canoe bed nor boord half a fcore honeft gctlewome That liuc honeftly by the prick of their needle, But it is thought (Wight we keeps a bawdy-houfe* O Lord heercs Corporall Nims,now (hall We haue wilful adultry and murther committed : Good Corporall Nim (hew the valour of a man, And put vp your (word. Nim, Pufli

Tift. What doft thou puftuhou prickeard cm of Iiebrufc Nim, Will you (hogoflfr I would haue yonfoSui* Pitt. Solus egregious dog,rbatfouninrhy ihrote, And in thy lungs,and which isworfc9within Thy mc(Ful! mouth, I do retort that folus in thy Bowels, and in thy Iaw,perdie: fori can talkc, And Pifloih flafliingfiry cock is vp,

Nm. I am not Barbafom^ou cannot coniurc me : I haue an humour PiiloJi to knock youindiffercntly wellf Aj*d you fall foule with wzPtlh/J., He fcoure you with my

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Pt/k Obraggardvilcand damned furious wight* TheGraue doth gapc,and groaning Death is near e, therefore exall.

They drawe*

*B*r. Heare me,he that (bikes the firft blow* He kill him,as I am a fouldier.

/*# . An oath of roickle might Tand fury (hall abate.

Nim. II coat your throat ac one time or an other infaire And theres the humor of it* (tcrracs, +

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(ofthefedayes. lie goto him, husband y oule come?

B*u Come Pi&oll be friends. Nim prithee be friends,and if thou wilt not be Enemies with me too. Nu I (bal haue my eight (hillings I woon of you at bearing? Pif. Bafeis the flauc that paye?. I00^

Nim. That now 1 will haue, and theres the humor of ic Pifl. A s manhood (ball compound. They draw. Bdr. He that (hikes the firftblow* lie kill him by this fword. Pjfi* Sword is an oath, and oathesmuft haue their cowrie,

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Tiff. A nob \cihi\t thou haue,ancl rcadie pay, '"

And liquoriikewifewill I giuctothee, And fncndilupfliallcofnbindand brotherhood? lie Iiuc by Nim as iV7»» (hall liuc by me .* 1$ not this iufl ? for 1 ihall Surer be Vnro the Campe,and profit will occrue.

Nim. I ihall haue my noblc?

Ptsi, In cafli moit truly paid.

Ntm, Why thetcs rhe humour of it.

Enter Holies. Hojleu A s euer you came of men come in* Sir Iebn poore fouic is fo troubled Wich a burning u fhan conrigian feuer,ris wonderful?. Ftft. Let vs condoll the knight ; for lamkiro we will liuc.

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Gicft. Before God my Lord, his Grace is too bold to truft thefe tray tors.

Exe. They fhalbc apprehended by and by.

6! ait. I bur rhe man that was his bedfellow Whom he hath cloyed and graced wich princely fallouts That he fhouid for a forraine pm (e, to fell His Soueraigncs life to death and trcchcry.

Exe. O the Lord ot'<JMa/jh*m.

Enter the King *nd three Lerdt.

King. Now firs the windes faire.and we wil aboord j My Lord of Cambridge >*x\& my Lord of M«fshamy A nd you my gc ntle K mght,giuc me your thoughts* Do you not thinke rhc power we bcare with vs, Will make vs conquerors in the field of France* kM*Jha, No doubt my Licge^f each man da his befl.

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isyourmaieftie. <jfay. Eucnthofe that were yotir fathers enemies Haue itccped their galles in honey for your fake.

King. We therefore haue great caufe of thankfulnefley fz

And lhall forget the office of our hands : Sooner then reward and merit. According to their caufe and worthinefTe*

M*fb«. So fcruicc (hall with ftecled iinewes (Tune, se ?

And labour fhail refresh it felfc with hope To do your Grace incclTant fcruice.

King. Vnclcof£*f/*r,cnlargetheman <«?<

Committed y eft crd ay ,r hat ray led againft our perfon, We confidcr it was the heate of wine that fet him on, And on his more aduke we pardon him.

M*jh*. That is mcrcie, out too much (ecuritie : Let him bee punifht Soucraigne , lead the example of

(him* Breed more of fuch a kinde. King. O let vs yet be merciful 1. C**»- So may your highnelle) and punifh too. C]> *y. You fhew great mcrcie if you giuc him life> After the taftc of his correction.

Kmg ♦ Alas your too much care and loue of me Ate hcauy orifbns gainft the poore wretch, If UtSc faults proceeding on difrempcr fhonld not bee

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How fhould we ftretch our ey c,whcn capita!! crimes, Che wcd,i wallowed and difge(tcd,appearc before vs : Well yet enlarge the man^tho Cambridge and the reft In their deare ioucs}and tender prcferuation of our ftate» f

Would haue him purottu, •■

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Who are the late Commiflfoners ? Com. Mc one my Lord, your rughncflc bad me aske for it today*

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M*]h„ So did you me my Soucraigne.

Cray. And me my Lord.

King. Then Richard Ear 1 c of fambridgt there IS yoUrsJ There is yours mv Lord of Mafbam. Aod fir Thomat Gray knight of Northumberland jddw fame is Read chem,and know wc know your wonhineflc. (youm Vnckle Exeter I will aboord to night. Why how now Gentlemen, why change you colour* What fee you in thofe papers That hath fo chafed your blood out ofapparancct

Cam, I do confelle ray i a uit,and do fubmif me To your highnefTe mercie.

Mapj. To which wc all appeale.

KmgK The mercy which was quit in vs but latcf By your owoc reafons is foresaid and done: You itiuft not dare for (Lame to askc for mercy, For your owne confidence rurne vpon your bofomtS) As dogs vpon their maifters worrying them. See you my Princes,and my noble Pccics* Thefc Englidi monftcrs : My Lord of Cambridge here, You know how apt we were to grace him, In all things belonging to his honour:

And this viidc man hath for a fc we light crowne j, e*

Lightly confpiiedand fworne vnto the praftifes ofFraaCft To kill vs here in Hofnptoti. Tothc which, This knight no leffein bountic bound to vs Then Cambridge is,haah likewife fworne. But ob what (hall I fay to thee falfc man, Thou auellineratefull and inhumane creature; Thou thai didft beare the key of all my counfell, That knewft the very fecrcts of my heart, That a I moil mighteft a coyned me into gold, W oul deft thou a praclifdc on me for thy vfe: Can it bepoffiblc that out of thee Should proceed one fpaike that might annoy ray finger*

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Ttf fo'ft range ,thaf rho rhe truth doth fliowe as grofe

As black nom whire,mine eye iril farccly fee it. a* Their faults arc open,arre{t them to the anfwer oftheiawe>

And God acquit them of their pra&ilcs. Exet I arrcft thee of hi^h treafon,

By the name cf Richard, £arle oi Cambridge. a b I areft thee of high treafon^

By the name ot Henry, Lord ofMafham

I areft thee of high treafon,

By the name of ThomM C-raykmght of 'Northumberland,*

Mafh* Our purpofes God iuitly hath difcoucrcd, And I repent my fault more then my death, Which 1 befeech your maief tic forgiue* Al thorny body pay the price of it*

Kmj* God quit you in has mercy .Heare your fentence. You muz confpircd again! t our roy all perfon , loyned with an enemy proclaimedand fix;d» And frohis coffers rcceiued the golden earned of out death Touching our pctfon we feckc no rcdrcfle. But we our kingdomes fafetie muft (b tender Whofcruinc you haue fought,

That to our lawes we do dcliuer you* (deaths

Get ye therefore hencetpooreroifcrablc creatures to your The taftc whercof,God in his mercy giae you (amide: Patience to endure,and tmc repentance of all your deeds

Bearet hem hence.

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Ho Kjngof England^fnot King of Franee,

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&ofi, I pretty fwectc heart, lei me bring thee (o fane as

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Bur. Well fir Iohn is goncGod be with him*

Hofl.J, he is in Arthurs bofaio.it coer any were : He went away as if it were a c ry fombd childs , Berwecne twelue and one, Iuft at turning of the tide: His nofe was as (harpe as a pen: For when I few himfumble-wiehthe (hectes, And talk of flo tires, and frciie rpc htsiingers ends I knew there was no way but or . How now firlahtr quoth I? And he cry ed rnree t imcsf God jGod,God, How I to comforr him,bad him nof trunk cfGod> I hope there wis no fuch rrccd, Then he bad me put more cloathes at his feere : And I felt to them,andthey were as cold as any (lone? And to his knees, and they were as cold as any (lone. And Co vp war cUnd vpward,and all was as cold as any (form.

Ntm. They fay he wide out on Sack.

Hofi. 1 that he did.

Bey. And of women*

Ho(l. No that he did not.

Boy. Yes that he did.and hefed they were d;ueh incarnic.

Hojl. Indeed carnation was a colour heneuec loued.

Ntm. Well he did cry out on women.

Hoft. Indeed he did in Come fort handle women. But then he was mmaticke , and talkt of the whore of

{Babylon.

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Nim. Shall we fhog off? The king wil be gone from Southampton*

Pi/?. Clearcvp thy crifta lies, Looke to my chattels and ray moueables* Tmft fioneuhe word is pitch and pay: Mens word; are wafer cakes, And holdfa&i* the only dog my d** are. Therefore copherua be thy counfellor, Touch heribfe lips and parr.

Bar, Farewell hoftcs,

2V»», I cannot kiscand theres the humor of it. But adieu*

2£l* Keepe fad thy buggle boe#

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#«?£♦ Now you Lords of Or/eance, Of B curb on t arid of Berry, You lee the King of Englandisnot Hack, For heis footed on this land already.

Dolphin. My gratiousLord, tis meet we all gee And arme Vs againlr the foe: (foorth,

And view the weak & fickly parts ^France: But let vs do it with no ftiow offeare, No with no more, ihen if we hca^d England were bulled with a Mom? dance. Fot my good Lord, Hie is fo idely kmgd, Her (cepter fo fanraitically borne, So guided by a fhallo w humorous youth, That fcare attends her not.

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Queftion your gTacctlic late EmbaiTador, With what regard he heafd his Embaflage* How well fupplicd with aged CounftlSour?) And how his rcfolution answered him, You then would fay that Htrrj was rot wilde.

King. Well rhinke we Harry ft i ong : And ftiongly armc vs to prcucnt the foe*

C0** My Lord here is an Einbailador From the King of England.

-Km. Bid him come in* You fee this chafe is hotly followed Lords;

Do/. My gracious fathcr.cut vp this Englifli Shell,

Selfeloue my Liege is not fo vilea thing,

As fclfe neglecting*

Enter Exeter.

King. From our brother Eng'and:*

E xc. From himand thus he greets your Maicftiei He wilsyouinthenameofGodAlmightic, That you dcueft your fclfe and lay apart That borrowed tydewhich by gift of heaucn* Oflaw e of nature, antlofnations3 longs To him and to his, h.ires,namely the crewne Ami ali wide f Irctched titles that belongs Vnto the Cro wne of Fr**ce,tiai you may know Tin no (inifter^nor no avvkeward claime, Pickt from the worm holes of old vaniiht dayes. Nor from the duft of old obliuion rackte, He (ends you thefc rnoft memorable iynes, Ineuery branch truly demonstrated: Witling yououerlookc this pedigree, A nd when you finde him eucnty dcriued From his moll famed and famous anceftors, Edward rhe third , he bids youthen refigne Your cro wne and kingdome, indirectly held From birji,ehc natiueand true challenges

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£*r. Bloody coftrainrjbrifyou hide the crown Euen in your hearts.therc will he rake for it: Therefore in fierce tempeft is he comming, In tbunder,ancf in earthquake, like a lime. That if requiring failc,he wil 1 compell it: Andon your hcadsturncs he the widowes tearci, TheOrpluncscrics,r he dead mens bones, The pining maydens grones. For Jiusbands,fathcrs,and diftrefled Iouett,

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This is his claime,his threatning,and my mcflage, Vnles the Dolphin be in pretence here, To whom cxprefry we bring greeting too.

Dot. For cue Delphin? I ftand here for him, "What to heare from England. +

Exe. Scorn Qc defiancc,flighf regard,comcmptj And any thing that may not misbecome The mightic fender.doth he prifc you at* Thus faith my king. Vnles your fathers highneflfc Sweeten the bitter raocke you Tent his Maieftic, +

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Shall chide your trefpai Jc, and return your mock, In fecond accent of his ordenancc*

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Between^ his yonger daycs and thefe he muftei* now* Now he way es time euen to the lateft grainy Which you fhall fiodc id your owne loflcs If he ft ay in France.

King. Well for vs,y ou (hall returne our anfWere backe To our brother England*

Exit emves. Enter NimjBardolfc.Piftoll.Boy. Nim. Before God here is hot* ieruicc. Ptfl. Tis hot indced.bbwcs go and come, Gods vaiTals drop and die. Nim. In honor ,and tht res the humor of rt. Boy. Would I were in London: J de giue all my honor for a pot of Ale.

Ptjl. And I. If wifhes would preaatle> I would not rtayjbut thither would I hie.

Enter Fleweiien audbeat&themith Tlev/t Codes plud vp to the breaches You rafcals, will you not vp to the breaches t

Nttn A bate ray t age fwe etc kmghf , Abate thy rage.

Ilof, Well I would 1 wete once from therm They would hauc me as familiar With mens pockets,as rhenr gloues>3nd their Handkerchcis, they wall fteate any thing. 3*rdolfe ftolca Lute cafc,canyed it three mile* And fold ir for three hapence. Nim ftole a fier ihouell. 1 knew by that,they meant to carry eoalei I Wcll.if they will notlefiuc me.» J mcane to tcauc them.

Exit Niw,Bflrdolfe,p!ftoRyW the Soy.

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Enter the King arulhtt Lords alarum.

King. How yet re(blues the Gouernour of die Towne i This is the laceft parley wseie admit t Therefore to our beft metric giue your fcluoi, Or hke to men proud of deftm&ion3defifi vs to our wot ft, For « I am a fouldter>a name that in my thoughts Becomes me bcft,if we begin the battery once againe I will not leaue die halfe atchicued Harflew* Till in her aflnes Hie be buried, The gates of mere* are all (hut vp. What (ay you,wt!l yon y edd and this anoyd* Or guiltie in defence be thus deftroyd!

finer Goutrrtonr. Cotter. Our expectation hath this day an end i The Dolphin whom of fiiccour we entreated, Rcturnes vs vrord.his powers are not yet ready* To raife fo great a fiege : therefore dread King, We yeeld our towne and hues to thy (eft mc tar t Enter our gatcs>difpofe of vs and ou«S| For wc no longer are defenfiue now.

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Kate. Allies venee*a,vou'> aues cates en, Vou parte fort boo Angloys englatara, Coman (ac pal la vou la main enrrancoy*

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Jilhce, La mara madam de han. Kate9 E da bras.

*Ailice. Dearma madam.

Kaie. I e main da han la bras dc arma.

Alike, Owyc madam.

Kate. E Coraan fa pclla vow la menton a la colL

Alhce. Dc neck,e dc cin, madam.

Kate. Edencck,edccin,e decode.

Alike. Dc cudte ma toy Ic obIyc,niais Ic remersbre, Lc tude,o dc eibo madam.

Kate. Ecowce Ic reherfera,cowt cclla qtx Ijcapoandr*, Dc ban, dc arma, dc neck, du cinte dc bilbo.

*Al(ke, Dcclbo madam.

Kate. O Jcfu, lea obloy c ma foy «c coatc Ie recontera Dc han, dc arma, dc neck, de cin^e de elbo,c ca bon.

Alike. Ma foy madam, vow parla au fe bon Angloys AGc vous aues eteuc en Englarara.

Kate. Par la grace de deu an pettie ones, Ieparlc milieu* Coman fe pelU voti le peid e lc robe.

Atftce* JLefbor, elecon.

Kate. Le fot, c le con jO Iefu / Ie ne ve w poind par I c» Sie plus dcuanr 1 e che cbeualires dc tranca5 Puronemillion mafby.

tsfllice, Madam,de foote , c 1 c con.

K*t>a O ec ill auficjccowtc Al)icc,dc han,de arms, Dcncck,decin,lefoote, c decon.

lAMice. Get fort bon madam.

Kate. Alouetadiner.

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In that fhort nook e lleof England.

Ca»Jf. Why whence haue they this BicCtal 2 Is not their cly mate raw,foggy and colde. /« +

On whom as in difdnine,the Sunne lookes pale ? +

Can barley broaih,a drench for fwolne lades Their fodden water decockt fuch Ikiely blood 1 And /hall our quick blood fpiritcd with wine S eeme frofty ? O for honour of our names, +

Let vs not hang like frozen Ticcilcklei Vpon our houfes tops, while they a more frofty clymate Sweate drops ofyouthfull blood.

King, Conftablc difpatch,fend Montioy forth* To know what willing raunfomc he will giue i Sonne Dolphin you flial I ftay in %g nt with roc. 6<? +

D«lt Not fo I do befeech your Maiettie

King. Well,! fay it flialbcfo*

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Flew. By Icfns thcrs excellet fcruice comittedaty bridge.

Gout. Is the Duke of Exeter fafe*

flew. The duke oiSxeter is a ma whom I loue,& 1 honor. And I worfhip,with my foulc,and ray heartland my life* And my lands and my liuings, t

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God be praifed and pleafed for it.no harme in the worell. He is maintain the bridge very gallcmly: there is an Enfign*

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Gouerx How do you call him?

I lew. His name it ancient PitteU.

Cwer. I know him not.

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Fbtot Do y cu not know him,here comes the man. Pttt. Captaine,! thee befeech to do me fauour. The Duke of Exeter doth loue thee well. FJew. I,and I praifc God 1 hauc wcrrited fomeloue at

(his hands. Pitt. 'Bardolfe a fouldier,one of buxfome valour. Hath by furious fate A nd giddy Fortunes fickle wheele, That Godes blinde that ftands vpon the rowlingreftkiTc

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Piew, By your pa tience ancient Pifttff, Fortunc,looke you is painted, Plind with a mufler before her eyes, Tofignific to you,that Fortune is plind : And fhe is moreouer painted with a wheele, Which is the morall that Fortune is turning, And inconftanr,and variation ^androutalilmes ' And her fate is fixed ai a fphcnrall ftonc Which roules, and roulcs,and routes ; Surely the Poet is make an exceliet defcriptio of Fortune* Fortune looke vou is and excellent morall.

Pish Fortune is Bardotfes foe ,and frownes.on him, For he hath ftoine a packs,and hanged mutt he be: A damned deathjictgallowcsppc for dogs, Let man zo frec^nd let not death his windpipe ftop.

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Therefore go fpcake the Duke will heart thy voyce, ««

And let not Bardolfes vitall threcd be cut,

With edge of penny cord, and vile approach. +

Spestke Captame tor bis life, and I wit! thee requite. Flew, Captain Ptftaltt\ partly vnderftand your meaning. sz +

FtSl. Why then rctoyccthetcforc,

F/'w.Ccrrainly Antient F^/.tis not a thing to rcioyce at s st

For if he were ray owne brother,! would wifti the Duke *

To do his pleafute,and put hirn to executionstfbr look you, *

DifcipUnes ought to be kept,thcy ought to be kept.

Pift. Die and be damned,and figa for thy fhcndfliijp* &> +

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?&. I fay the fig within thy bowels and thy durty maw.

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I remember him now,he is a bawd,a cue put fc es^t

Flevr. By 1 cfu< heeis vtter as praue words vpon the bridge +

A s you Hull J dir e to fee in a forarners day , but its all one, +

"What he hath fed to mc,!ooke you, is all one. «* +

Ge* W by thh is a gull,a fooie,a rogue that goes to the wars *

Oflcty to grace himfelfe at his terurne to London : And fuch fell owes as he, Are perfect in great Commaunders names. They will learne by rote where feruicos were done, At fuch and fuch a fconcesat fuch a breach, o +

At fuch a conu«y : who came offbraue1v,wri3 was (not, Who difgraced.wb.it termes the enemie (food on. And this they con perfectly in plirafe ol warre, +

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Flew. Certain captain Cjewcrjt is not the man,lookeyoty That 1 did take him to be : but when lime fliall feme, \ (ball tell him a lide of my defires : here comes his Maieftie. Tnter ATw^ClarenccGlofter and others,

King. How now Ftew*l/en,come you from the bridge i

Tier*. I and it fhall pleafc your Maieftie, There is excellent feruicc at the bridge* King. What men haue you loft Flewellen ? Flew. Andic fhall plcife your Maieftie, The partition of the aduerfarie hath bene great, Very reafonably grcatrbut foe our own parts3like you now# 1 thinke we hauc loft ncucr a man,vnU iTe it be one for robbing of a church,one BArdelfeSl your Maieftie Know the man,his face is full of whelkcs and knubs, And pumples,and his breath blowcs at his nofe Like acole,fomctimes redjfomstimes plew: But god be pr af fed.no w his nofe is executed,& his fire out*

King. We would haue all offenders fo cue off, And we here giuc cxpreffc comraaandroent, That there be nothing taken from the villages but paid for, None of the French abufed, Or abraided with difdainfull language J For when cruelty and lenitie play for a Kingdome, The gent left gamefter is the fooncr winner. Enter French Herauld*

Hern. You know me by my habit.

XV. Well the.we knowthee,what fhuld we knew of thee?

Hera, My maifters roinde*

King. Vnfoldit.

Hem/. Go thee vnto Hurry of £wg/W,and tell him*

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Attho we did fceme dead, we did but {lumber.

Now we fpeake vpon our kuc, and our voy cc is imperial!*

England fliall repent her folly : fee her rafhneiTe,

A nd admire our fufferance.W . ;ch to raunfomc,

His pettineiTe would bow vndcr :

For the effufion of our blood, his army is too wcake :

For the difgracc we haue borne, himfelfe

Kneeling at our feetc}a weake and worthlefle fatitYaeYion.

To thisjaddcdcfyancc. So much from the king my maitler.

King, What is thy name? we know thy qualitic*

HemU, Mpntioy.

Kmg. Thou doft thy office fairc.returne thee backe, And tell thy King,Ido not feeke him now : But could be well content, without impeach, To march on to Caltis : for to fay the (both , Though tis no wifdomc to contelle fo much Vntoan encmie of craft and vantage. My fouldicrs are with (ickncfle much infecblcd, My Army leiToned,and thofe fewe I haue, A lmoft no better then fo many French : Who when they were in heart,) tell thee Hcrauld, 1 thought vpon one paire of Englifh legges, Did march three French mens. Yet rorgiue me God,that I do brag thus : This your hcire of France hath blownc this vice in raC I muft repent,go tell thy maiftcr hevc I am, My raunfome is this frayle and worthlefle body, My Army but a weake and fickly guarde* Yet God btfore.we will come on, Xf F ranee and fuch an other neighbour (tood in our way J If we may paCfcwe will : if we be hindered, "Wc lha! your tawny ground with your red blood difcoloiuv So Montioy get you gone, there is for your paines : The fum of all our anfwerc is but this, Wc would not feckc a battk as we arc ;

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+ J76	HtrMtld. I (hall deliuer fo: thanks toyour Maieftie.	114
+	tf£/T My Licge,I hope they will not come vpon vs now.
>	King. Wcarc in Gods hand brotheiyiot in thcirst
t	To ni^ht wc will encarape beyond the bridge.
f /a/	And on to morrow bid them mat ch away. £*f*rBurbon,Con{tablc,Orlcance,Gebotu Cimft. Tut 1 haue the beft armour in the world* Grleanct. You haue an excellent armour.	WS
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•7	But let my horfc hauc his due.
> ,	Burbon. Now you ta«kc of a horfe,l haue a ft eed like the	4
•\n-3 |	Palfrey of the fun nothing bur pure ayrc and fire, And hath none of this dull element of earth within him,.
+ 20	Orlcance. He is of the colour of the Nutmeg.
f2/	*Bttr. And of the heate.a the Ginger.	8
+ -?6	Turne all the fands into eloquent tongues,
37	And my horfe is argument for them all :
+ 42	J once writ a Sonnet in the praite of my horfe,
	And began thus. Wonder of nature.	12
44	Con. ] haue heard a Sonnet begin fo,
•J-	In the praife of ones MiftrefTc.
+	Bttrb. Why then did r hey iraroitatc that
+	Which I writ in praife of my horfe,	16
47	For my horfc is my miftrefle.
t	Con. Ma foy the other day,me thought
J* 52	Your miftrcfTe fhookc you fihrcwdly.
+ 6<»	Bur. I bearing me. I tell thee Lord Conftab!^	20
+	My miftrctfc wcarcs her owne haire.
+	Con. I could make as good a boatt of that.
+	If I r»3d had a fouv to my miftreiJe.
T	Bur. Tut thou wik make vfe of any thing.	24
+ 7/ >	C*j».Yet I do not vfe u»y horfc (as my miilrcffe.
+ 80	Bur, Will ttneuer be morning?
♦	lie ride too morrow a mile,
<*<S	And my way fhalbe paued with Eogliflj facet. C**, By	28

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Can. By roy faith fo will not I, For feare I be outfaced of my way.

Bur. Weil lie go arme my feltchay,

(jebon. The Duke oiBi&rben longs for rooming

Or. 1 he long* to eare the EnghSu

&». 1 thinke hcele eate all he kiltes*

V rle. O peacc,ill will ncuer (aid well.

Com. Uecaprhatprouerbe, With there is flattery in fritndftiip.

Or, Ofir,I can anfwere that, With giue the duiel his due.

Ccn^ Hauc3tthceycofthatprouerbe> With a Ioggeof the diuel.

Or. Wellthc Duke oi B«rl>eti,is (imply. The moft acYme Gentleman of France.

Com. Doing his aftiwtie^ind hecle Oil be doing.

Or. He n cuer did hurt as 1 heard off.

Cont No I warrant you,nor neuer will.

Or. 1 hold him to be exceeding valiant .

£on. I was told fo by one that knows him better the you

Or. Whofcfhat?

Con. Why hctoldmefohimfelfe: And faid he cared not who knew it.

Or. Well who will go with me to hazard, For a hundred Englifli prifoncrs i

Ion. You muft go to hazard your felfc,

Before youhauc them.

jEttteraMiffrnger.

iMcjf. My Lords,thc Englifo lye within a hundred Paces of your Tent.

CV». W ho hath racafuted the ground ?

Mfjf* The Lord Granpcere*

Con. A valiant man, a. anexpert Gentleman.

Gome, come away; The Sun is hicand we wcare out the day. Exit om»est

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+	Pj/2. Difcus vnto me, art ihcu Gentleman*
+	Or art thou comrmn,bafe,and p'opclcr 2	f
+	King. No fir,l am a Gentleman of a Company.
40	Pift* Trailcs thou the puiflant pike?
+	King* Eucn (o fir, What arc you J
	Tift, As good a gentleman as the Eroperour.	a
t	K**g. O then thou art better then the King J
f -?•/	Pift* Thr kings a bago,andahart of gold.
+	Pift. A lad of life.an »mpe of fame :
	Of parents good,of fill: moft valiant:	IZ
t	Ikishisduttic (hoe.and from my hart firings
4S	I loue the loucly bully. What is thy name I King, HArry \cKoy»
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+	Kin. No fir, I am a Wealchman.
+ S2	Pift. A Wealchman: knowft thou FUwelUnt
t	Kin. Ifir.hehmykinfman.	20
>	Pift* Art thou his friend I
+	Ktn. 1 fit.
+ 01.	Pift. Figa for thee then : my name is Tiftelt.
3.	Kin. It forts well with ydur frercenefic.	Zt
t	Pi/l» Piftoll 'is my name.
+	£**PiftoU.
+	Enter giwertndFlewcUen*
6"?	$ow* Captaine Flewe/len.
f	Flew. In the nameof Iefu fpeake leaver.
+	It is the greateft folly in the worcll, whenthc auncient	28
+ 68	Prcrogatiues of the warres be not kept.
+	I warrant you,if you looke into the warres of the Romanes*
+	You (h all findc no tittle taxi lc,no t bible bablc there: But

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But yon fhall flndc the cares,and the fcarej- And the ccve;nonics>to be otherwise.

Gghy« Why the enemy is Ioud-you heard hirn all nighr.

J7/**?, Godes follud,if the enemy be an AiTe & 4 Foole* And a prating cocks-comcis it meet that we be alfo a f«oie» And a prating cocks-couie,in your confcicacenow^

Go»rt ilefpeake lower.

flew, I befcech you do,goo<rCaptaine Go»er*

Exit G»wer,And Fitm/k*.

Km, Thoit appeaiealitlcoutof falhion, Yet theres much care in this.

JEnttr three Souldurs.

1 .Sonl. Is not that the morning yonder t 1 . Soul* 1 we fee the beginning,

God knowes whether we fhall fee the end or no»

3 Soul. Well I thinke the king could wifli himfclfe Vp to the nccke in the middle of the Thames, And Co I would he were,at all aduenturcs,and I with him. Kin. Now maftcrs godmorrow,whatchcare* 3-S. Ifaith fmall cheer fomc of vs is like tohaue. Ere this day ende. Km, Why fear nothing man,thc king is frolike# 1 . S.I he may be,for he hath no fuch caufc as we Kw. Nay fay not fo.he is a man as we ate- The Violet fmels to him as to vs : Therefore if he fee reafons,he fcares as we do«

2 Sol* But the king hath a heauy reckoning to make, JFhis caofe be not good: when all thofc foulci Whofe bodies fhall be flaughtcrcd here,

Shall ioyne together at the latter day,

And fay /dyed at fuch a place. Some Iwearing:

Some their wines rawly left :

Some lcauing tbeir children poors behind them.

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Now if his caufc be badj chink it will be a greeuous matter

(to him*

Kin*. Why fo you may fay,tf a man fend his fetuant As Fadlor into anofher Counrrey, And he by any meancsmifwrry, You may fay the bofineflc of the raaifter, Was the author of his feruants misfortune* Or if a fonne be imployd by his father, And he fall into any leaud ac"iton,you may fay the father Was the author of his fonncs damnation. But the matter is not to anfwei e for his feruants, The father for his fot\nc,nor the king for his fubielts : For they purpofc not their deaths , whe they craue their fer- Some there arc that haue the gift of premeditated (uiccs: Murder on them:

Others the broken fealc of Forgery jin beguiling may dens* Now ifthefe out ftrtp the lavve, Yet r hey cannot efcapc Gods pumfhment. War is Gods Bcadel. War is Gods vengeance: Euery mans fcruice is the kings: But cuery mansfouleis hisowne. Therfore i would haue cuery ibuldtcr examine himfelfe* And wafh eucry moath out of his conference: That in fo doin£,he may be the readier for death: Or not d> mg.why tlic rime was well fpent, Wherein fitch preparation was made.

3 Lord* Yfaith he faies true: Eucry mans fault on hts owne head, I would nor haue the kins; anfwere for me. Yet I intend to fight luftily for him.

King. Well,I heard the ktng.he wold not be ranfomde.

2. L. Ihefaidfo.tomakevifijht: But w hen our throat es be cut, he may be ranfomde, And we neuer the \\iUr.

K'*£ It i hue to fee tliat, He neuer truft his word again*.

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%. %ol Mas youlc pay him then.tis s great difptcifure That *n elder gun.can do againitacannon. Or a fubieft againft a monaike, Youie nere fake his word again ,ycur a uaffc goe,

Kmg* Your rcproofe is fomewhar too bitter; Were if no? at this time i could be anety.

2. So/* Why !etit bcacjuarrelhf thou wife*

£/*£. How (hall I know thee i

1 S»/, Here i > my *loue, which if cucr I ice fc> thy hat, 3!e challenge thce,and ftrike thee.

.£»». Here is like wife another of mine, And allure thee sic yeeare it.

3.S*/. Thou dar'ft as well be hangd.

3«$s/. Be friends you fooles, We haue French cjuarreSs anow in hand? We haue no need of Eng!i(h or^yles.

Km, Tis no r rea f "on to out French cro wnes* for so morrow the king himfclre wil be a clipper*

Exit ihefoffiditrjo

Sttirthe XvngjCjtofter, EpngKm/tnd

K* O Go6 of battels ft ecle my fouJdJers harts. Take from them rtow the fence of rekconing, That the app vfed multitudes which (bad before these, JMay not appall their couras;^

0 nor to day, not to day 6 God, Thinkeonthcfauhmy fathcrrnade, In comparting the crownc.

1 T\tob*rds bocfie haue interred new,

And on it ha«h brftowd more contrite f cares, Then from it iflucd forced drops of blood: A bundled men haue 1 in yearly pay,

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Wbkfc eoerytlay their withered hands hold vj> To heaoen to pardon blood, A nd I hauc bui't rwo chanceries, more wil I do* Thoall that lean do* is all too litlc.

Enter GMler.

Glen. MyLojd.

Kino, &1y brother Glo&ersvoyct- GUft. My Lord ,the Army fta> es vpon your pretence. King. Stay G totter flay ,»nd I will go wirh thee. The day my friends,and allxhings fraye? for me.

Enter Clarctice>Gloftcr,Exctcr,and Sa!i<;burie,

W*r% My Lords the French are very ftrong.

Exe. There is flue mone.and yet they all 3refre/h,

War. Of fighting men they hauc fall fortic thoufand*

Sal. The oddes is all too great. Farewell hind Lords % Br. me Clarence, and my Lord otGlofler, fAy Lord of Waryncke,zna to all farewell.

Clar. Farewell kind Lordjfighl valiantly to day, And yet in truth,! do thec wrong, For thou art made on the nue fparkes of honour. Enter King.

War, O would we had but ten thotifand men NoAf at this in(tant,that doth not woike in England.

King. Whofe t hat,that willies {b,my Coulca Waryvxh^ Gods will,! would not loofe the honour One man would fhare fromme, Not for ray Kingdorae- No faith ray Cou[en,wifh not one man more, Rather proclaimed prefcutly through our campc? That he that hath no ftotaackcto ihis fcaft, Lethiinclepar^hispafpott fiiallbeeijrawne, Arid crowncs for conuoy put into hi> pmfej

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Wewouta* not die in that mans company, That f cares his fellowship to die with vs. This day is called theday of Cryfpin, He that outlines this day,and feesoldage, Jshal I (tand a tiptoe when this day is named, A od ro a fc him at the name of Cryfpin. He that aurliuesthis day, and comes fafe home, Shall y care Jy on the vygill fcaft his fi lends, A nd fav,to morrow is S. Cry fpines day : Then fliall we in thcir-flowing bowlcs Be newly rcmembred. Harry the King, Bedford and Exeter tCkn*cem& Giofler,

Familiar in their moutnes as boufhold worJr*

This ftory (hall the good roan tell his fonnc,

And from elm day,vnto the gcncralldoome :

But wi in it (hall be rcmembred.

"We fewe > we happic fewc, we bond of brothers,

For he to day that (heads his blood by mine,

Shalbe my brother : be he ncre fo bate,

This day fliall gentle his condition.

Then fh .11 he (trip his (lccues, and fhew his skat «,

And fay,rhcfc wounds I had on Crifpines day-

And Gentlemen in Fngland nowa bed,

Shall thinke thrmfelucs accurlt,

And hold their manhood cheapc,

While any fpeak-. that fought with VS

Vpon Saint Cnfpines day.

g/oft. My ^raciou^ Lord, The French is in the field. Kin. Why ail things are ready ,if our minds be (6,

War* P« nfh the man whofe mind is backward now.

Kmg. Thou «loft net Aim more help fro England couien?

9Var. Gods will my Lie^c.would you and f alone, Without more hclpe,mighc fight this baule out.

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"Why well faid.That doth plesle sac better* Then to wsfh me one. You know your charge, God be with you all

£«*«• r&t Herald pom the French.

Herald. Once more 1 come to know of thee king Henry, What thou wile s.ius for raunumse ?

A'i». Who harh feat thee now ?

J/«rr, The Conflable of France*

Ki». I prethy bcaremv former anfwer backet t^td them atchicue rne,and then fell my bones. Good God, why fhould they mock good fellows The man star once did fell the Lion< skirt, (thus.* While the beaft lmed,was kiid with hunting hiro, A many of our bcdiCi fhallno doubt Fmdc graues within your realms or France: Tho hu icd in your dunghits, we fhalbc famed, For there the Sun (ivill grcetc ;hem, And draw vp their honors rcakiog vp to heaueo, Leaoing then earthly pans to choke your c!ym« i The fmel wherof, (hAi breed a plague hi Franca A jui ke then abundant valour in our finghih, Thai bejr»gdcad,Uke to the bullets crating,, Bi eakes forth into a fecond courfc of tmfchiefe. Killing in rclaps ofmortalitic; Let mc fpcake proudly, Ther*» not a peecc of feather in our campt. Good argument I hope we (h ill no? $yc: And rime hath wornc vsinto rloucndry. Bm by the t»as<,our hearts are in the trim, A nd my poore (buldtrrs te\ me, yet ere ni»ht Thay le be in rreuSer rob«,or they will piucke The gay new cloaihes ore your French (o withers cares, And turne them out offeuuee. Hthey do this, As if it plcafe God they fni»!l, Then (hall cut raniome looue be lemed.

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Her. Jilwlideliuerfo*

Exit Herauld.

York*. My gracious Lcrt^vpen my knee /craue, Theleading ot the va ward.

Kin* Take it braue 7V%.Come fouldkrs lets away; AndasthoKplcafclt Godsdifpofe she day*

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Enter the ftmn Frettsh £,erd&

Ce. Odiabello- Conft. Mot du ma vie*

Or, O what a day is this/

Bur. O lour det houre ail isgene^ii is loft,

Con. We are inough yet liuin* in the tkSd, To fmother vp the Engliiln, If any order might be thought vpon.

Bur. A plague of order, once more to the Held* And he chat will not follow Bmrhnmom» Let hire go home.and with his cap m liaud* Like a bacc leno bold the chamber doorc. Why leaft by a fliue no gentter then ray dog9 His faired daughter is conraoiuracke.

Con. Diforder that hath fpoy id vs,right vs now» Come we in heapes , weelc offer vp cur lru£5 Vnro thefc EngliOijor elfe die with fame*

Come,coiTte along, Lsts dye with honour.ois? foame doth iaft too long.

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Enter Pipoll, the French nun, and the Boy.

Tift. E) Id cur, cy Id cur,

French. O Monfircic vous en pree aues pctie de ntOfm

Ptjl. Moy (hall notferue./will hauc forric rnoys. Boy aske him his name.

i?<7« Comant ettcs vous a pellcs \

French. Monfier Fer.

Bey. He faies his name is M *frcr Fer.

Ptft. /lc Fcr him,and fcrir him,and fcrkc hinH Boy difcus the fame in French.

Boy. Sir I do not kno w, what s French Forfer,ferit and fearkr.

Pift* Bid him prepare.for I wi! cut his throate,

Boy. FeaceiVou prcat.iU voulfes coupek votre gage*

Pitt, Ooye ma toy couple la gorg<*. Vnlcfli thou giue to me egregious raunfome,dve.

One poy ntof a foxe. French. Qui die ill monfierei 111 dtrye C you ny vouly pa dorny 1uy.

Boy. La g,ran ranfome.ill vou lucres.

French- O lee vous en pn pert it gcntelhomcparle A cee,gran capatatru ,pour aurz mcrcie Amoy,ey Icedonerees pour mo« rar.fome Oiiquintc on 'S.Je iuyes vnqcncclhomc dtFrtttee*

Pitt, What (ayes he boy?

'Boy. Marry fir hefayes,h«? is a Gentleman of a great Hr.ufc/>f Fr*nct:zn6 fpr his ranlome, He will <>iuevou 500. crownes.

PM. My fury fhal! abate,

And I the Cro ,vnes wiii take.

And as 1 luck blood, { will Come mcrcie (hew.

Folio a me cur.

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Enter ike Km* and hit NobtestV\W. jII.

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Yet all is not done,yet kcepc the French the field.

£xe. The Duke of York* commends him to your Grace*

King* Liues he good Vnckle,twife I fawc him downe> Twifevp agamc: From helmet to the (purrc,all bice Jihg ore.

Exe. In which aray .brauc fouldier doth he lye, Larding the plaints. and by his bloody fide» Yoikc fellow to his honour dying wounds, The noble farlc ofSuffo/kf alio iy es. Suffolk? firft dy de,and York? a !1 haft cd ore, Gomes to him where ia blood he lay (rcept, And takes him by the beard vkiHes the ga&es That bloodily didyane vpon his lace, And cry tie aloud,tary dearc coufin Suffolk?: My fouie ibill thine keep company in heauen: Tary deare foulc awhile,thcn flic to reft: And in this glorious and weii foughttn field, We kept togithcr in our chiuaMry. Vpon jhcfe words 1 came and chcerd them Vft He tookc me by the hand, f aid deare my Lord, Commend my fcruicc-to my foucraigne. So did he tume,and oucx Suffoikes neckc He threw his wounded armc^nd (o efpoufed to death, With blood he fea'ed.An argument Of ntuer tnding loue.Th? prctie and fwect maner of if* Forft thofc waters from rue.which I would hauc ftopt, But I not fo much of man m me, But all my mother came iott» my eyes* And gaue me vptotcares.

Km. 1 blame you not : for hearing you, I mud conuett to t caret,

tsiUrwn foundes.

What new alarum ia this » Bid cuery fouldier kill his prifcner* fifi* Couple gorge. Exittmttes,

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Goftr. Tis cert amcthcre is not a Boy left ahue, And checowcrdly rafcais that tan froixuhc battell* Thcmfelucs haue done this {laughter: Befide,they haue carried away and burnt, All that was in the Junes Tent ;

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Whervpcn the king emied cucry prifoners Throat to be cut. O he is a worthy king.

i-Vb?, I lie was bom at A4enmorth. Captain Gower twhn call you the place where Alexander the big was borne?

Qiftr, Alexander the sreat.

JFVWr. Why I pray,is nat tig great* As iflfay,bit!; or grcac,or magnanimous* I hope ir is all one reconing, Saoe thefrafe is a litlc varaiion.

Gonr. ] thinke *silcx*nder the great Was borne at AttcetUn. His father was called PbiSp niMiicsdcn^ As /take it,

F/ew. /thinkc it was t^/Ucedon inoeed where Alex**4er Was borne : Jookc you captaine Gower, And ifyoulooke into the mappesoftheworell well, Yott fliall frndc hfle difference betwecne tJMAccdon and iJlfonmortk. Lookc you,there is A Riucr m Afacedt>H,and there is alio a Riuer In Mewficrth,the Riucrs nao?e at Monmortb, It called Wye,

But tis out of my braine, what is the name of the others But tis all one,hs fo likcas mv fin«rer s is to my fingers*

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Andthc:cisS3rnonsinbofh.

Lookc you captaine Gomrjsxb you noarkc k>

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You fhafl finde our King is come after Alexander. God knowe;,and you know.that Alexander m hjs Bowles, and hisalles,and his wrath.and his dsfpleafures, And indi°natk>ns,was kill his friend Cl<ttu.

gerver. /but our King is not i;ke hun iruhat, For he ncuer ktli d any ofhis friends.

View. Lookc you,tis not well done to take the tale out Of a mans mouth, ere it is madeanend and firrifhcd : I fpeake in the companions as Alexander is kill Hi* friend Chtnt : foour King being in hi* ripe Wits and tudgcment$,is turnc aivay,thc f3t knite With t!ie great belly doublet;! am forget his name, Gower. Sir Iobn Fa/flajfe. Flerr. ], I thinke it is Sir lohn Fa/flaffe indeed, I can teilyou, theres good men borne at Aiaatmrtb. Ester Hjftg And the Lords. King. I was not angry fines /came into France, Vntiil rhis houre. Take a trumpet Hcrauld, A nd ride vnto the horfmen on yon hi!! : If they will fight with vs bid them come downe. Or ieaucttv. iicld.they do offend our light : Wili they do neither, vie will come to them, And make them ikyr a way, as faft A s ftones enforlt from Che old A llmnn flings. Befidcsjweele cut the throats ofthofe we iuuc, And not one aliue (hill taOc our mercy.

Enter the Herdu/d, Gods will what mcanes tins? kno^fl t!iou not That we haue fined theie bones of our for ranfome?

Herald% I come great king for charitable fauour, To foTtourNoblesiromcur common men, Wcmay haue ieauc to bury all our dead, Which in the field lye fpoyled and troden on. Kin* I tdl thee truly Hei aaldjl do nof know whether

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+	The day be ours or no:	OS
+<?<?	For yet a many of your French do keep the n*e!d»
	//<rra. The day is yours.
*■	Kin, Pra'ifed be God therefore.
t	What Caftlc call you that ?	72
f*2	Hera. We call it isiginconrt. Kin. Then call we rhisthc field of Agmcourt.
t	Fought on the day of CryJpi*?>Cry(pitt.
35	Flew. Your grandfather of famous memories	76
+	If your grace be remernbred,
> +	Is do good feruicc in France.
•f/00	Kin* Tisttuc Flewellen,
	Flew. Your M aic flic fay es verie true.	30
f	And itpicafcyour Maieftie,
t	The Wealchmen there was do goodfciuice,
103	In a garden where Leckes did grow.
> +	And J thinke your Maieftie wil take no fcorne,	84
f/0#	To wearc a Leake in your cap vpon S.Oauies day.
+	Kin, No Flewellenfox I am wcalch as well as you.
+	Flew, Al 1 the water in Wye wil not wafh your wcalch
1-112	Blood out of you, God keep it,and preferue it,	S8
+	To his graces will and picafurc.
*	Kin. Thankes good countryman.
116	Flew, By lefus I am your Maicfties countryman:
*/20	I care not who know it,fo long as your maiefty is an honeft	92
t>	K. God keep me fo.Our Herald go with him, (man.
t	And bring vs the number of the kattrcd French.
*	Exit Heralds,
t	Call yonder fculdier hither.
f (24	Fltw, You fellow come to the king.	9t?
+	Kin, Fellow why dooft thou wcare that gloue in thy hat?
f/3/	Son/, A nd plcafc your inaieftie.tis a rafcals that fwagard
J.	With mc the other day : and he hath one of mine,
f	Which if cuer I ice,l haue fworne to (hike hira. So L__ ...	100

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cfffenrytheffi. So harh he fwornc the like to me. K. How think you Flewellenjs \% h wfull he keep hif oath*

fl. And it pleafe your mjiefty,tis lawful he keep his vow. If he be periur'd oncc,he is as arrant a beggcrly knauc, As treads vpon tooblacke (hues.

Kin. His enemy may be a gentleman of worth.

Flew. A nd if be be as good a gentleman as Lucifer And Bclzcbub,and the diuel himfelfc, Tis meete he keepc his vowc.

Kin. Well (Irrha keep your word. Vnder what Captain ferucft thou.?

Sou/. Vnder Captaine Gower.

Tier*. Captaine Gower is a good Captaine* And hath good littraturein the wanes.

Km, Go call him hither.

Sou/, I will my Lord*

Exkfotitdicr.

Kin. Captain FIewellen,vthtn AUnfon and I was Downc together,/tookc this gloueofffrom his helmet* Here Fletvellen, weare it. H any do challenge it, He is a friend of Alonfons^ And an enemy to mee.

Fie. Your rnaieflie doth me as great a fauour As can be defired in the harts of his (ubieftj, /would fee that man now that fiiould chalenge thisglotfe: And it pleafc God of his grace,/ would but fee him, That is all.

Kin. Flewellen kno wft thou Ca ptaine Gewer ?

Tie. Captaine Gower is my friend . And ifit like your maie(tie,/know him very well#

Kin, Go call him hither.

Flew, /will and it fhall pleafc your maicftie.

Kin. Follow F lave lien clofely at the hecleSj The gloue he wearcs, it was the fouldicrs:

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It may be there will be barrae betwecne them* For I do know FUreellen valiant, And being touches hot as gunpowdei : And quickly v\ill rcturne an iniury. Goicc there be no harme betweene them.

Enter <jorcer\Flewellen:and the Smldier,

Fltw. Captain Gneerjn the name of Icfti, Come to his Maieftic,there i$ more good toward yoUj> Then you can dreamc off.

Sou/, Do you hearc yoaiir ? do you know this gloucf

Flew. 1 know the the gloue is a glove,

Soul. Sir I know this3and thus 1 challenge if.

Hefirikes km»

Flew, Code plut,and his.Captain Cower (land away;; lie giue treafon his due prefently.

Enter the Kwg.Vy<irrrhkf>Ci'*rence,And 'Exeter*

Km, How nowjwhat is the matter i

Flew, And it fliall pleafe your Maicftie, Here is the notable! t pcece of treafon come to light. As youfhalldefirc to fee in afommers day. Hereis arafca!l,beggerly rafcall.is ft like the gloue, Which your Maieftic tookc out of the helmet otAlonfcm And your Maieilic will beare me witnc$,and te(timony> And aoouchmentSjthat this is the gloue.

Soul, A nd it pieafr your Maieftje,that was my £<oue. He that I gaue it too in the night, Promifed me to weore it in his hat : I promifed to ftnke him \i he did. lmct that Gcntlenun,with my gloue in his har, And i thinkc I bauc bene as good as my word. Flew. Your Maieftie hcarci, vnder your Maieftic*

Manhood, « hat 3 beggcrly bwfie knaue it is* Kin, Let me fee thy gloue-Looke you,

This is the fellow of it.

It vvas I indeed voupromiicd to (hike.

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And thou thou had giucn rue mod bistei wonfc. Ho-v canft thou make vs amends I

Fierv. Let his neckcsnfwcrcifj If thcic be any raarfnais lawe in the worell.

Se»/. My Liege*all offences come from the heart; Neucr came any from mine to offend your Maieftie* You appeard to mc a? a common man: Wicneftc the night,your g3tments,your lowlincfle. An d vvhatfocuer yourccciucd vndcr that habit, I befeech your Maieftie impute it to your owne faulc And nor mine.For your felfc carac not like your felfc Had you bene as you Teemed,! had made no offence. Therefore I befeech your grace to pardon me.

Km. Vnckie,(iii thegfoue with crownes, And giueit to the fou'dicr.Weare it fellow, As an honour in thy cap,tiii I do challenge if, Giue him the crownej.ComcOptaine FUivcUeti, I muft needs haueyou friends.

ir!«*\ By I cfus, the fellow hath mcttall enough Inhii bclly.Haike you fouldier,thcrc is a {hilling for you, A nd keep your felfc ouc of brawles & brables , & dilTentios i Andliokeyou,it fhalibe she better for you.

Sou!* He none ofyour money ilr,not I.

F/ew. Why tisa good (hilling man. Why thould you be queamifh ; Your {hoes are not fo good; It wiil ferue you to mend your (hoes.

Kin* What men of fort are taken vnckW

Exe, ^haries Dukeof Or/e*nce%\$c\\\c w to the Kingt John Duke of BnrboM,sn\A Lord B<mche\HA(U Of of hct Lords and BarronSjKrirghfs and SqUicrs, Full fiftecne huncirei,bcnVes common men. This note doth tell me often ihoufand Frcnchjihatin the field lyes lbinc. Of Nobles bearing banncrsin the field,

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IY.viii.	The Chronicle HiHow	Scxviii.
	Charles ie le Brute,h\c Conftable of France*
	Jaques o(ChattilltantAd<n'Ka\l of France,
	The Maifter of rhe crosbows, Iohn Duke Alofon.	64
f 97-105	Lord Ranbteres, hie Maifter of France. The braue brGmgzard, Dotyhin.OINobclU QiariiiM^ Gran Prie,and RoJJe, Fawcenbridge and Foj,
	Gerard and Verton. Vandemant and Lejlra*	68
	Here was a royall fellowship of death*
	Where ii the number of our Englifh dead*
108	Edward the Duke of Torl>e,the Earle of Suffolk**
	Sir %icbard Ketlj, Dauy Gam Efquicr :	72
+	And of all other ,buc fine and twencie. O God thy arme was here,
f//2	And vnto thee alone}afcribe we praife.
t	When without ftrategem,	76
+	And in euen (hock of battle, was euer heard
+ //fi	So great,and litle 1 o(Te,on one part and an other.
+	Take it God,for it is onely thine.
	Exe. Tis wondcrfulh	80
t	King. Come let vs go on proceffion through the camp :
J.	Let it be death proclaimed to any man,
+ /20	To boaft hereof3or take the praife from God,
+	Which is his due*	8<t
t	Flew. Is it lawful,and it pleafe your Maieftie, To tell how many is kild J
f/24	King . Yes Flewellen,but with this acknowledgement,
+	That God fought for vs.	88
t	Flew. Yes in my confciencc,hc did vs &reac good.
>I28	King. Let there be fung,Nououcs andtc Deum*
+	The dead with chariticentcrred in clay:
	Weclc then to Ca/ice,zj\d to England then*	92
t	Where ncre from Francetitriudc more happier men.
_ +	Exit omnes. Enter GoweryandFlewellen. Germ. But why do you wcare your Lceke to day i
VJ.+	SCXK
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Saint Dories day is paft i

F}4rpf. There is occalion Captaine (Jtwtr, Lookeyouwhy,and wherefore, The other day looke you,Ptf}o//es Which you know is a man of no merites In the vvorel Lis come where I was the other dayt And brings bread and faulted bids me Earc my Lcckc : twas in a place ,looke you, Where /could mouc no difccntiocs: Bur if /can fee hira,/iliall ceil him, A litle of my defircs.

Gov. Kcie a comes,fwclling like a Turkecockc.

Enter Pip//.

F/evrm Tis no matter for his fweWngjand his turkecocki, God plefleyou Amicnt Pf/?<?//,youfi:all, BcggcrIy,lowfie knaue,God pletfcyou.

*P«/?. Ha,art thou bcdlem ? JDoft thouthurft bafc Troyan, To hauc me foldc vp Pdrcas fatall web ! Hence, ! an; qualmifh at the fmell of I.ceke.

F/ewt A ntient PisleU. 1 would deiire youbecaufe It doth net agree with your ftomackejana1 your appetite, And your digcftions,ta catc this Lc eke*

7/Jl. Not for CAdwallericr and all his goatcs.

F/ew. There is one goate for you Antient PiftoU

Hefirik$shimf

Pift. Bace Troyatuhou fliall dye.

F/ew. I, I know 1 fhall dyc.meanc time* I would Dcfireyouto iiueand eate this Lcckc,

Goreer. Inough Captaine,youhaue afloniflit him:

r /ew. Aftonifht bim,by 7cfu,l le beacc bb head Foure dayes,and fourc nightSjbur He Make him eare fomc part of my Lcckc.

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t«w	Tlnv. I out ofcjueftion or doubt>or ambiguities
*	YourauftbyVc.	36
+ 5tf	Pttt. Good good.
+	F/ctv. I Leckes arc good, Antient Pifioff.
f	There is a (hilling for you to healc your bloody coxkome.
+	Pitt. Me a (lulling.	10
f 6*	Flo*. If you will not take it,
+	I iiaue another Leckc for you.
1	Pttt. I take thy (hilling in earneft of rcconing.
$68	Fietv, If I owe you any thing,i!e pay you in cudgels, You fhalbe a woodmonger,	<l<h
■L	And b"y cudgcls,God bwv you,
+	Antient *Pis~Ml%GoA bleiTc you,
t	And healc your broken pate*
1	Antient Pt$loUj& you fee Leekcs an other time.	18
f.57-9 '	Mocke at thcm>that is all : God b wy you. Exit F/ewe/Zen^
72	Wfl. All hell /hall ftir for this.
7* $85	Doth Fortune play the hufwye with me now t
f	Is honour cudgeld from my warlike lines J	sz
•f	Well France farwcll,newcs haue I certainly
+ 57	That Doll is ficke. One mallydie of France,
*	The warres afford eth nought,homc will I ttug.
+	Bawd will I turnc,and vfetheftyte of hand : To England will I fteale>	5e
92	And there lie ftcale.
+	And patches will I get vnto theft skarres,
X	And fweatc I gat them in the Gallia warres.	BO
+	ExuPiftotl. 'Enter at one doorefhe King ofRnghndatrdhu Lords. Andat the other doore jtht • Kingof Vr met } JgueeneK&thctinc,/**
+ V.ii.	Saxx.
	"Dukg of Burbon, W ethers.
1	Harry, Peace to this mecting.wbereforc^e arc met. And i— —

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And to out brother Francs \ Faire time ofdsjr* fai* e health vmoour louely coufen Katberine. And as a branched member of this (lock: We do dilute you Duke of *Bitrgond$e.

Fran* Brother of Englandjxvht ioy ou$ are we to behold Your face=fo are we Princes Englifh eucry one.

Duks With pardon vnto both your mightines. Let it not difpieafc you,if I demaund What rub or bar hath thus far hindrcd you, To keepe you from the gentle fpeech of peace*

Har. I f Duke of Bnr gundy yoxx wold hauc peace. You mud bay that peace, A ccordmg as we hauc drawne our articles.

Fran, We baue but with a curfenary eye, Oreyiewd them pl< afeth your Grace, To let (pme ofyour Counftll fie with vs, Wefliall retutne our peremptory anfwere.

Har. Go Lords,and fit with them?; And bring vs anfwere backc. Yer leaue our coufen Katberine here behind.

France. Withall our hearts.

Exit Kingandthe Lords. Afanet,Hrty JCathc- nneyand the Gentlewoman.

Hate. Now Katet you haue a blunt wooer here Left wiih you.

If I could win thee at leapfrog, Or with vawting with my armour on my backe, Into mr iaddle, Without brag be it fpoken, Idc make compare with any. But leaui ng that Katet If f hou takeft me now, Thou fhalt baue me at the worft:

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~:50-i	Ami io W€armg,thou (halt hsue me better and better,
± ;t,4	Thou thalc hauca face that is not worth fun-burning, But dooft thou thinkcthae ehou and I,
	Betweenc Saint De-,tu,	..<-•
$219-23 <	And Saint George, (hail get a boy, That fhall goc to ConUantinopie% , And take the great Turkc by the be^rd;ha Katrt
,
+ /7#	Kate. IsitpoiIiblcdatracfaSI	■•(
+	Loue de cnemi e de France.
+ /<S0	Harry. No KatejAs vnpou*ible
+	You fhould !oue the cnemic of France:
>.!■	For KateJ loue France (o well,	-?■?
"	That lie not Jcaisc a Village,
+ /<5<7	llehauc it all mine : then Kate,. When France is mine,
	And X amy our 3?	-?<!?
+	Then France is yours, And you are mine.
+	Katr. I cannot tell what as dae*
+/55	Harry. Ho Kaie,
+	Why lie tell it you in French,	-J-"
+	Which w»il hang vpon my tcngue,like i bride
+	On her new married Husband,
+ /S4	Le£fiie fee>Sain« Denm be my fpeed*	5 c
^.i	Quan Francs ct mon«
*	Kate, Dat is, when Franc* is yov.t <•*
*	Harry, Et voUSCftc^aiHoy*
*	Kate. And I ani to ycu.	6(7
*	Harry t DoucX Francs etf es a voust
•	A'<ef*. Den France fa3l be msr.c
'	£&rr?. Erlefyyues avcus.
1	Kate, And vow will be to me, H>\ Wilt belceus me fttteftis tafkrfornse	64
	To conquer the kingdoret, she' to fpeakfo much Mo?e Fiench.
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Kate. A your Maie% has fajfe France inou»h

To deceiuc dc beft Lady m France,

H*rry< Nofaich'Kttenotl. BucKrfttx f n plaine tcrmes,do you iouc snc ? Kf?« I cannot tell

Harry, No,can any of your neighbours tell! lie aske them.

Come K*//,I know you loue me. And icone when you are in your cloflef, Youle queftion thb Lady of me. Bus I pray thee fwcete K*/*,vfe nee mercifully, Becaufe I lom thee crueliy, Thaf 1 (hall dye K*tt,js furc * But for shy loue^by the Lord neucr, Whs* Wench,

A ffcraight backc wHl gsowe crooked. Abound eye will growc hoSlowe, A great kg will waxe froali? A curld pare proue balde j But a good hears Kate,, is the fun and the mcone, And rather the Sun and not the Moons : And therefore Kate take sue, Take a fouldiei :take a fooldicr, Take a King. Therefore tell me K>f rjwUt thou haue me?

KW<r. Dat is as picafe chc King my father,

Harry : Nay it will pleafc him : Nay it (hill pleafc him Kate, And vpon that condition Kare lie kiflc you* Krf.O mondulc nc voudroy fairc cjueikc cholTe Pour toutc ie mondc, Cc ne poynt votree fachion en fouor,

Harry, what &ies ibe Lady ?

Lady* Dat it is not de fafion en Fran&t For deniaidcs,kefo?edd bemarried to

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+	May foy ic oblye,what is to bafli e ?
+ 2tS9	ffaf. To kis,co ki$. O that ti$ not the	104
+	Fafhion in Franncefor the maydes to kis
+	Before they are married.
+ 2.92	Lady. Owyc Ice votree grace.
*	H*r. Well, weclebrcake rhar cuftoroe.	108
t	Therefore Kate patience perforce and! yedd.
+ 30/	Before God Kate, you haue witchcraft
•fl	In your kiflcs:
~	A nd may perfwade with me more,	112
+ J04	Then all the French Councell.
+	Your father is returned.
+	En/er the Ktn^ ef France, and the Lories.
•M.59	How now mv Lords ?
+	France. Brother of England,	116
+	We haue orered the Articles,
4-	And haue agreed to ail that we in fedule had.
4,	Exe. Only he hath not fiibfcribcd ihiSi
•36<?	Where your maielriedemaunds, That the king of I- fame hailing any occaiion To write for matter of graunf , Shall name vour lutj.hnciTc, in this forme:	120
	And with this addition in French.	121
+ -J6.S	No'sire trejberfux,, Henry ~Rjoy D'angUterre-
+	Ebearedc France. And thus in Latin : Vredarijjhnu> filuu mnjierllenr'iCH* R.ex Attgfo,
	St heres Framte.	IZ8
*	Fran. Not this haue we fo nicely flood vpon>
+	But you faire brother may intteat the fame.
+	Har. Why then let this among the rcftj
4. i-o	H:ue his full cout fe : And w ichall,	132
+	Your daughter Katherin* in manage • Trattceu

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cf Henry the f ft.

Fran. This and what clfe, Your maicftie (hall craue. God that djfpoferh aU,giuc you much ioy,

Har. Why then f aire Katkeruu. Come g,iue roc thy hand: Our manage will we prcfemfolcmnifc, And end our hatred by a bond cf loue. Then will J fweaic to K*d«f and Katt to mee "■ And may our vowes once made, vubrokf n be i

FINIS

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CORRECTIONS

FOR

" THE CRONICLE HISTORY OF HENRY THE F/FT," 1600. Qo. 1.

The following actual mistakes, and worst indistinctnesses, should be corrected

with a pen : — p. 5, I. 109, correct Ly ns to Lyons p. 7, 1. 242, read subiect p. 8, 1. 262, read 'fet ' ; 1. 281, ' gun '

p. 9, 1. 304, collectio to collectio. (In 1. 293, read ' you ' ; 1. 294, 'lest ') p. 10. 1. 35, getlewome to getlewome. (In 1. 44, read ' Ifeland ? ' 1. 56,

'firy') •

p. 1 1, 1. 98, bearing to beating

p. 16, I.15, vpo to vpo ; 1. 16, or to one ; 1. 20, tnree to three ; 1. 28, ftorm

to ftone ; 1. 33, make the last loord 'incarnat ' ; ' Bar.' at foot should be

'Bar.' p. 17, 1. 52, read 'pitch' p. 1 8, 1. 86, worm holes to wormeholes

p. 19, 1. 51, coftraint to coftraint. (In 1. 63, read 'exprefly') p. 21, catchword at foot : Allies (?), to Allice p. 22, 1. 43, millour to milleur ; 1. 65-S, arms to anna ; under it, read

' 0 in nes ' p. 23, III. vi. 1, fro to fro

p. 25, 1. 79) perfectly to perfectly. (In 1. 77, read ' conuoy ', ' brauely ') p. 29, 1. 114, the to the (in IV. ii. 63, read 'out ') p. 32, 1. 161, read bufineffe of

p. 38, 1. 45, read Cinquante ocios. le (In 1. 50 ' fury Shall ') P- 39) L 32) re°d conuert. (In 1. 24, read 'turne') p. 40, 1. 24, read borne ; 1. 26, difference p. 41, 1. 53, read doublet ; 1. 72, thefe . . ours p. 44, 1. 2, Maiefiie (?) to Maieftie p. 48, 1. 49, nWbyte ; ]. 88, trug p. 50, 1. 61 (Qo.), read ettes p. 52, 1. 293, read that; 1. 305, father ; 1. 368, f Iz ; 1. 370, filius ; 1. 371,

Francie p. 53, 1. 400-1, ;v(?</ hatred, Kate.

Generally every/that looks like/ in the headlines is clearly/in the original ; and every letter c, e, f, i, r, f, t, y, &c, which the sense shows should be clear, when the lithograph is confused,* may be safely taken to be clear in the original. In the following words where the lithograph is clear, the mistakes are those of Creede, the printer of the Quarto : —

p. 8, 1. 277, lideyi>r like

p. 14, 1. 93, ha.ah for \mth

p. 30, 1. 05, \ewer for lower

p. 34, 1. 14, rrue for true

p. 36, 1. 1 14, flouendry/^ flouendry

p. 39, 1. 20, the turnd 1 of these

p. 49, 1. 23, Hate for Kate ; 2 lines abuv, Hrry for Harry

Any Subscriber willing to undertake the hanging or burning of a photolitho- grapher or two, — to encourage the others, — should apply to

F. J. FURNIVALL.

* Some two hundred and odd letters need touching up.

PR 2750 312 1836

Shakespeare, William King Henry V

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