And silken dalliance in the wardrobe lies; And hides a sword, from hilts unto the point, O England!-model to thy inward greatness, men, One, Richard earl of Cambridge; and the second, Bard. Well met, corporal Nym. have edges. It must be as it may: though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod. There must be conclusions. Well, I cannot tell. Enter Pistol and Mrs. Quickly. Bard. Here comes ancient Pistol, and his wife -good corporal, be patient here.-How now, mine host Pistol? Pist. Base tike, call'st thou me-host? Quick. No, by my troth, not long: for we cannot Pist. Pish for thee, Iceland dog! thou prick-ear'd cur of Iceland! Quick. Good corporal Nym, show the valour of a man, and put up thy sword. Nym. Will you shog off? I would have you solus. Nym. I am not Barbason; you cannot conjure me. I have a humour to knock you indifierently well: If you grow foul with me, Pistol, I will scour your with my rapier, as I may, in fair terms: If you would walk off, I would prick your guts a little, in good terms, as I may; and that's the humour of it. Pist. O braggard vile, and damned furious wight! The grave doth gape, and doting death is near; Therefore exhale." [Pistol and Nym draw. Bard. Hear me, hear me what I say:-he that strikes the first stroke, I'll run him up to the hilts, [Draws. as I am a soldier. Pist. An oath of mickle might; and fury shall abate. Give me thy fist, thy fore-foot to me give; Thy spirits are most tall. Nym. For my part, I care not: I say little: but when time shall serve, there shall be smiles;-but that shall be as it may. I dare not fight; but I will wink, and hold out mine iron: It is a simple one; in fair terms; that is the humour of it. Nym. I will cut thy throat, one time or other, but what though? it will toast cheese; and it will endure cold as another man's sword will and Pist. Coup le gorge, that's the word!-I thee there's the humour of it. defy again. Bard. I will bestow a breakfast, to make you No; to the spital go, O hound of Crete, think'st thou my spouse to get? friends; and we'll be all three sworn brothers to France; let it be so, good corporal Nym. Nym. Faith, I will live 30 long as I may, that's the certain of it; and when I cannot live any longer, I will do as I may: that is my rest, that is the rendezvous of it. Bard. It is certain, corporal, that he is married] to Nell Quickly: and, certainly, she did you wrong; for you were troth-plight to her. And from the powdering tub of infamy, Boy. Mine host Pistol, you must come to my master, and you, hostess;-he is very sick, and Nym. I cannot tell; things must be as they may: would to bed.-Good Bardolph, put thy nose bemen may sleep, and they may have their throats tween his sheets, and do the office of a warmingabout them at that time; and, some say, knives pan: 'faith, he's very ill. My lord of Cambridge,-and my kind lord of Masham, Bard. Away, you rogue. Quick. By my troth, he'll yield the crow a pudding one of these days: the king has killed his And heart.-Good husband, come home presently. [Exeunt Mrs. Quickly and Boy. Bard. Come, shall I make you two friends? We must to France together; Why, the devil, should we keep knives to cut one another's throats? Pist. Let floods o'erswell, and fiends for food howl on! Nym. You'll pay me the eight shillings I won of you at betting? Pist. Base is the slave that pays. Nym. That now I will have; that's the humour of it. Pist. As manhood shall compound; Push home. Bard. By this sword, he that makes the first thrust, I'll kill him; by this sword, I will. Pist. Sword is an oath, and oaths must have their course. Bard. Corporal Nym, an thou wilt be friends, be friends: an thou wilt not, why then be enemies with me too. Pry'thee, put up. Nym. I shall have my eight shillings, I won of you at betting? Pist. A noble' shalt thou have, and present pay; And liquor likewise will I give to thee, And friendship shall combine, and brotherhood: Nym. I shall have my noble? Nym. Well then, that's the humour of it. Re-enter Mrs. Quickly. Quick. As ever you came of women, come in quickly to sir John: Ah, poor heart! he is so shaked of a burning quotidian tertian, that it is most lamentable to behold. Sweet men, come to him. Nym. The king hath run bad humours on the knight, that's the even of it. Pist. Nym, thou hast spoke the right; His heart is fracted, and corroborate. Nym. The king is a good king: but it must be as it may; he passes some humours, and careers. Pist. Let us condole the knight; for, lambkins, we will live. you, my gentle knight,--give me your thoughts: Think you not, that the powers we bear with us, Will cut their passage through the force of France; Doing the execution, and the act, For which we have in head' assembled them? Scroop. No doubt, my liege, if each man do his best. K. Hen. I doubt not that: since we are well persuaded, We carry not a heart with us from hence, Cam. Never was monarch better fear'd, and lov'd, Grey. Even those, that were your father's enemies, Have steep'd their galls in honey; and do serve you With hearts create of duty and of zeal. K. Hen. We therefore have great cause of thankfulness; And shall forget the office of our hand, Scroop. So service shall with steeled sinews toil;. K. Hen. We judge no less.-Uncle of Exeter, Enlarge the man committed yesterday, That rail'd against our person: we consider, It was excess of wine that set him on ; And, on his more advice, we pardon him. Scroop. That's mercy, but too much security: Let him be punish'd, sovereign; lest example Breed, by his sufferance, more of such a kind. K. Hen. O, let us yet be merciful. Cam. So may your highness, and yet punish too. Grey. Sir, you show great mercy, if you give him life, After the taste of much correction. K. Hen. Alas, your too much love and care of me Are heavy orisons 'gainst this poor wretch. If little faults, proceeding on distemper, Shall not be wink'd at, how shall we stretch our eye, [Exeunt. When capital crimes, chew'd, swallow'd, and digested, SCENE II.-Southampton. A council-chamber. Appear before us?-We'll yet enlarge that man, Enter Exeter, Bedford, and Westmoreland. Though Cambridge, Scroop, and Grey,-in their Bed. 'Fore God, his grace is bold, to trust these dear care, traitors. Exe. They shall be apprehended by and by. West. How smooth and even they do bear themselves! As if allegiance in their bosom sat, Bed. The king hath note of all that they intend, By interception which they dream not of. Exe. Nay, but the man that was his bedfellow, Whom he hath cloy'd and grac'd with princely favours, That he should, for a foreign purse, so sell (1) A coin, value six shillings and eight-pence. And tender preservation of our person,- causes; Who are the late commissioners? Cam. I one, my lord; Your highness bade me ask for it to-day. K. Hen. Then, Richard, earl of Cambridge, there is yours; There yours, lord Scroop of Masham ;-and, sir knight, Grey of Northumberland, this same is yours :— Read them; and know, I know your worthiness.My lord of Westmoreland, and uncle Exeter,We will aboard to-night.-Why, how now, gentle men? What see you in those papers, that you lose So much complexion ?-Look ye, how they change! For this revolt of thine, methinks, is like Their cheeks are paper.-Why, what read you Another fall of man.-Their faults are open, there, That hath so cowarded and chas'd your blood You know, how apt our love was, to accord Could out of thee extract one spark of evil, But he, that temper'd2 thee, bade thee stand up, Why, so didst thou: Or are they spare in diet; Arrest them to the answer of the law ;And God acquit them of their practices! Exe. I arrest thee of high treason, by the name of Richard earl of Cambridge. I arrest thee of high treason, by the name of Henry lord Scroop of Masham. I arrest thee of high treason, by the name of Thomas Grey, knight of Northumberland. Scroop. Our purposes God justly hath discover'd; And I repent my fault, more than my death; Which I beseech your highness to forgive, Although my body pay the price of it. Cam. For me, the gold of France did not seduce; Although I did admit it as a motive, The sooner to effect what I intended: But God be thanked for prevention; Which I in sufferance heartily will rejoice, Beseeching God, and you, to pardon me. Grey. Never did faithful subject more rejoice At the discovery of most dangerous treason, Than I do at this hour joy o'er myself, Prevented from a damned enterprise: My fault, but not my body, pardon, sovereign. K. Hen. God quit you in his mercy! Hear your sentence. You have conspir'd against our royal person, Join'd with an enemy proclaim'd, and from his coffers Receiv'd the golden earnest of our death; [Exeunt conspirators guarded. Exe. Quick. Pr'ythee, honey-sweet husband, let me bring thee to Staines. Pist. No; for my manly heart doth yearn.❞— Bardolph, be blithe;-Nym, rouse thy vaunting veins; Boy, bristle thy courage up; for Falstaff he is dead, And we must yearn therefore. Bard. 'Would, I were with him, wheresome'er he is, either in heaven, or in hell! Quick. Nay, sure, he's not in hell; he's in Arthur's bosom, if ever man went to Arthur's bosom. (5) Accomplishment. (6) Sifted. (7) Endowed. (8) Attend. (9) Grieve. 'A made a finer end, and went away, an it had For England his approaches makes as fierce, been any christom' child; 'a parted even just be- As waters to the sucking of a gulf. tween twelve and one, e'en at turning o'the tide; It fits us then, to be as provident for after I saw him fumble with the sheets, and As fear may teach us, out of late examples play with flowers, and smile upon his fingers' ends, Left by the fatal and neglected English knew there was but one way; for his nose was Upon our fields. My most redoubted father, as sharp as a pen, and 'a babbled of green fields. Dau. How now, sir John? quoth I: what, man! be of It is most meet we arm us 'gainst the foe: good cheer. So 'a cried out-God, God, God! For peace itself should not so dull* a kingdom, three or four times: now I, to comfort him, bid (Though war, nor no known quarrel, were in him, 'a should not think of God; I hoped, there question,) was no need to trouble himself with any such But that defences, musters, preparations, thoughts yet: So, 'a bade me lay more clothes on Should be maintain'd, assembled, and collected, his feet: I put my hand into the bed, and felt them, As were a war in expectation. and they were as cold as any stone; then I felt to Therefore, I say, 'tis meet we all go forth, his knees, and so upward, and upward, and all To view the sick and feeble parts of France: was as cold as any stone. Nym. They say, he cried out for sack. Bard. And of women. Quick, Nay, that 'a did not. Boy. Yes, that 'a did; and said, they were devils incarnate. Quick. 'A could never abide carnation; 'twas a colour he never liked. Boy. 'A said once, the devil would have him about women. Quick. 'A did in some sort, indeed, handle women but then he was rheumatic; and talked of the whore of Babylon. And let us do it with no show of fear; No, with no more, than if we heard that England. By a vain, giddy, shallow, humorous youth, Con. O peace, prince dauphin! Boy. Do you not remember, 'a saw a flea stick And you shall find, his vanities fore-spent Bard. Well, the fuel is gone, that maintained that fire: that's all the riches I got in his service. Nym. Shall we shog off? the king will be gone from Southampton. Pist. Come, let's away.-My love, give me thy Look to my chattels, and my moveables: For oaths are straws, men's faiths are wafer-cakes, Go, clear thy crystals.-Yoke-fellows in arms, [Kissing her. Nym. I cannot kiss, that is the humour of it; but adieu. Pist. Let housewifery appear; keep close, I thee command. Quick. Farewell; adieu. SCENE IV.-France. Were but the outside of the Roman Brutus, Dau. Well, 'tis not so, my lord high constable, Fr. King. Think we king Harry strong; standing, Up in the air, crown'd with the golden sun,[Exeunt. Saw his heroical seed, and smil'd to see him Mangle the work of nature, and deface A room in the French The patterns that by God and by French fathers King's palace. Enter the French King attended; Had twenty years been made. This is a stem the Dauphin, the Duke of Burgundy, the Consta-Of that victorious stock; and let us fear ble, and others. The native nightiness and fate of him. Fr. King. Thus come the English with full power upon us; And more than carefully it us concerns, Therefore the dukes of Berry, and of Bretagne, Enter a Messenger. Mess. Ambassadors from Henry king of England [Exe. Mess. and certain Lords. With men of courage, and with means defendant: You see, this chace is hotly follow'd, friends. (1) A child not more than a month old. (2) Mrs. Quickly means lunatic. (3) Dry thy eyes. (4) Render it callous, insensible. (7) Lineage. Dau. Turn head, and stop pursuit: for coward] dogs Exe. He'll make your Paris Louvre shake for it, Were it the mistress court of mighty Europe: Must spend their mouths, when what they seem to And, be assur'd, you'll find a difference threaten, Runs far before them. Good my sovereign, Re-enter Lords, with Exeter and train. From our brother England? To him, and to his heirs; namely, the crown, [Gives a paper. In every branch truly demonstrative; Exe. Bloody constraint; for if you hide the crown Dau. For the dauphin, I stand here for him; What to him from England? Exe. Scorn, and defiance; slight regard, contempt, And any thing that may not misbecome Dau. Say, if my father render fair reply, I did present him with those Paris balls. (1) Resound, echo. (2) Bank or shcre. (As we, his subjects, have in wonder found,) Between the promise of his greener days, And these he masters now; now he weighs time, Even to the utmost grain; which you shall read In your own losses, if he stay in France. Fr. King. To-morrow shall you know our mind at full. Exe. Despatch us with all speed, lest that our king Come here himself to question our delay; Fr. King. You shall be soon dispatch'd, with fair conditions: A night is but small breath, and little pause, ACT III. Enter Chorus. [Exeunt. Cho. Thus with imagin'd wing our swift scene flies, In motion of no less celerity Than that of thought. Suppose, that you have seen With fatal mouths gaping on girded Harfleur. Suppose, the ambassador from the French comes back; Tells Harry-that the king doth offer him [Exit. SCENE I.-The same. Before Harfleur. Alarums. Enter King Henry, Exeter, Bedford, Gloster, and soldiers, with scaling-ladders. K. Hen. Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; Or close the wall up with our English dead! (4) The staff which holds the match used in firing cannon. (5) Small pieces of ordnance. |