Henry V

by

William Shakespeare

Henry V is a historical play that covers the events surrounding the Battle of Agincourt, a significant battle in the Hundred Years' War between England and France. The play begins with King Henry V ascending to the throne and facing challenges to his legitimacy as king. He decides to prove his worth by launching a military campaign to reclaim English territories in France.

The play follows Henry and his army as they journey to France, encountering various obstacles along the way, including illness and a lack of supplies. Once they reach France, they engage in several battles, including the famous Battle of Agincourt. Despite being outnumbered, Henry and his small army emerge victorious, and he earns the respect and admiration of his troops and the French princess, whom he woos and marries.

The play explores themes of leadership, loyalty, and the morality of war. Henry struggles with the weight of his own decisions, particularly when he orders the execution of prisoners of war. He also grapples with his own morality and the responsibility that comes with being a leader. The play ends with Henry's triumphant return to England and his plans for a peaceful reign.

Act I

Act 1 of Henry V begins with the Archbishop of Canterbury and Bishop of Ely discussing the possibility of a war with France. They propose that King Henry V should claim the French throne as his own, based on his ancestry. They also suggest that the church could benefit from the spoils of war.

Meanwhile, King Henry V is shown as a young and determined leader who is ready to prove himself in battle. He discusses his plans with his advisors and declares his intention to invade France. He is confident that his soldiers are well-equipped and motivated to win the war.

The King sends an ambassador to France to demand the crown, but the French Dauphin sends him a mocking gift of tennis balls instead. This insult infuriates Henry and makes him even more determined to go to war.

As the English army prepares for battle, some soldiers express doubts about the righteousness of the war. However, Henry gives a rousing speech that inspires them to fight bravely for their country and their king.

The act ends with the English army crossing the English Channel and landing in France, ready to begin the campaign.

PROLOGUE

Enter Chorus

Chorus
O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend
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The brightest heaven of invention,
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A kingdom for a stage, princes to act
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And monarchs to behold the swelling scene!
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Then should the warlike Harry, like himself,
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Assume the port of Mars; and at his heels,
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Leash'd in like hounds, should famine, sword and fire
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Crouch for employment. But pardon, and gentles all,
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The flat unraised spirits that have dared
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On this unworthy scaffold to bring forth
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So great an object: can this cockpit hold
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The vasty fields of France? or may we cram
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Within this wooden O the very casques
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That did affright the air at Agincourt?
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O, pardon! since a crooked figure may
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Attest in little place a million;
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And let us, ciphers to this great accompt,
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On your imaginary forces work.
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Suppose within the girdle of these walls
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Are now confined two mighty monarchies,
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Whose high upreared and abutting fronts
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The perilous narrow ocean parts asunder:
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Piece out our imperfections with your thoughts;
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Into a thousand parts divide on man,
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And make imaginary puissance;
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Think when we talk of horses, that you see them
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Printing their proud hoofs i' the receiving earth;
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For 'tis your thoughts that now must deck our kings,
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Carry them here and there; jumping o'er times,
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Turning the accomplishment of many years
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Into an hour-glass: for the which supply,
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Admit me Chorus to this history;
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Who prologue-like your humble patience pray,
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Gently to hear, kindly to judge, our play.
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Exit

SCENE I. London. An ante-chamber in the KING'S palace.

Scene 1 of Act 1 opens in the court of King Henry V of England. The Archbishop of Canterbury and the Bishop of Ely are discussing a bill that has been introduced in Parliament which proposes to take away some of the Church's land and treasures. They fear that this will weaken the Church's power and influence, and they discuss ways to persuade the King to reject the bill.

Meanwhile, the King enters and greets the two clergymen. They then begin to discuss the King's claim to the French throne, which is based on his distant ancestry. The Archbishop presents a legal argument in favor of the King's claim, and then proposes that the King should invade France and press his claim by force. The King is initially hesitant, but he is eventually persuaded by the Archbishop's argument and by the prospect of glory and conquest.

The scene ends with the King giving his consent to the invasion and ordering his advisors to begin preparations for war. The Archbishop and Bishop exit, leaving the King alone on stage. He delivers a soliloquy in which he reflects on the responsibilities of kingship and the challenges that lie ahead. He vows to live up to the expectations of his people and to prove himself a worthy ruler.

Enter the ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY, and the BISHOP OF ELY

CANTERBURY
My lord, I'll tell you; that self bill is urged,
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Which in the eleventh year of the last king's reign
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Was like, and had indeed against us pass'd,
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But that the scambling and unquiet time
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Did push it out of farther question.
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ELY
But how, my lord, shall we resist it now?
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CANTERBURY
It must be thought on. If it pass against us,
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We lose the better half of our possession:
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For all the temporal lands which men devout
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By testament have given to the church
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Would they strip from us; being valued thus:
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As much as would maintain, to the king's honour,
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Full fifteen earls and fifteen hundred knights,
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Six thousand and two hundred good esquires;
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And, to relief of lazars and weak age,
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Of indigent faint souls past corporal toil.
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A hundred almshouses right well supplied;
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And to the coffers of the king beside,
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A thousand pounds by the year: thus runs the bill.
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ELY
This would drink deep.
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CANTERBURY
'Twould drink the cup and all.
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ELY
But what prevention?
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CANTERBURY
The king is full of grace and fair regard.
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ELY
And a true lover of the holy church.
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CANTERBURY
The courses of his youth promised it not.
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The breath no sooner left his father's body,
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But that his wildness, mortified in him,
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Seem'd to die too; yea, at that very moment
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Consideration, like an angel, came
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And whipp'd the offending Adam out of him,
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Leaving his body as a paradise,
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To envelop and contain celestial spirits.
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Never was such a sudden scholar made;
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Never came reformation in a flood,
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With such a heady currance, scouring faults
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Nor never Hydra-headed wilfulness
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So soon did lose his seat and all at once
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As in this king.
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ELY
We are blessed in the change.
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CANTERBURY
Hear him but reason in divinity,
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And all-admiring with an inward wish
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You would desire the king were made a prelate:
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Hear him debate of commonwealth affairs,
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You would say it hath been all in all his study:
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List his discourse of war, and you shall hear
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A fearful battle render'd you in music:
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Turn him to any cause of policy,
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The Gordian knot of it he will unloose,
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Familiar as his garter: that, when he speaks,
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The air, a charter'd libertine, is still,
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And the mute wonder lurketh in men's ears,
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To steal his sweet and honey'd sentences;
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So that the art and practic part of life
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Must be the mistress to this theoric:
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Which is a wonder how his grace should glean it,
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Since his addiction was to courses vain,
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His companies unletter'd, rude and shallow,
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His hours fill'd up with riots, banquets, sports,
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And never noted in him any study,
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Any retirement, any sequestration
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From open haunts and popularity.
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ELY
The strawberry grows underneath the nettle
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And wholesome berries thrive and ripen best
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Neighbour'd by fruit of baser quality:
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And so the prince obscured his contemplation
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Under the veil of wildness; which, no doubt,
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Grew like the summer grass, fastest by night,
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Unseen, yet crescive in his faculty.
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CANTERBURY
It must be so; for miracles are ceased;
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And therefore we must needs admit the means
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How things are perfected.
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ELY
But, my good lord,
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How now for mitigation of this bill
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Urged by the commons? Doth his majesty
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Incline to it, or no?
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CANTERBURY
He seems indifferent,
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Or rather swaying more upon our part
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Than cherishing the exhibiters against us;
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For I have made an offer to his majesty,
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Upon our spiritual convocation
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And in regard of causes now in hand,
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Which I have open'd to his grace at large,
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As touching France, to give a greater sum
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Than ever at one time the clergy yet
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Did to his predecessors part withal.
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ELY
How did this offer seem received, my lord?
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CANTERBURY
With good acceptance of his majesty;
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Save that there was not time enough to hear,
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As I perceived his grace would fain have done,
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The severals and unhidden passages
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Of his true titles to some certain dukedoms
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And generally to the crown and seat of France
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Derived from Edward, his great-grandfather.
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ELY
What was the impediment that broke this off?
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CANTERBURY
The French ambassador upon that instant
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Craved audience; and the hour, I think, is come
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To give him hearing: is it four o'clock?
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ELY

CANTERBURY
Then go we in, to know his embassy;
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Which I could with a ready guess declare,
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Before the Frenchman speak a word of it.
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ELY
I'll wait upon you, and I long to hear it.
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Exeunt

SCENE II. The same. The Presence chamber.

Scene 2 of Act 1 features the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Bishop of Ely discussing King Henry V's claim to the throne of France. They are concerned that the king may be considering war with France, which could have devastating effects on England. They discuss the Salic Law, which prohibits female descendants from inheriting the throne of France, and how this could potentially give Henry a claim to the French crown.

The Archbishop presents a lengthy and detailed argument in favor of going to war with France, citing historical precedents and religious justifications. He also suggests that a successful war with France would distract the English people from internal political issues and unite them behind the king.

The Bishop, on the other hand, is hesitant about the idea of war and suggests that Henry should focus on domestic issues instead. He argues that the king should use his power and influence to bring about peace and prosperity for his people, rather than engaging in costly military campaigns.

The two men eventually agree that they will support the king's decision, whatever it may be. They conclude the scene by discussing an upcoming meeting between Henry and the French ambassador, where the issue of the French crown will be addressed.

Enter KING HENRY V, GLOUCESTER, BEDFORD, EXETER, WARWICK, WESTMORELAND, and Attendants

KING HENRY V
Where is my gracious Lord of Canterbury?
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EXETER
Not here in presence.
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KING HENRY V
Send for him, good uncle.
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WESTMORELAND
Shall we call in the ambassador, my liege?
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KING HENRY V
Not yet, my cousin: we would be resolved,
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Before we hear him, of some things of weight
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That task our thoughts, concerning us and France.
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Enter the ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY, and the BISHOP of ELY

CANTERBURY
God and his angels guard your sacred throne
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And make you long become it!
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KING HENRY V
Sure, we thank you.
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My learned lord, we pray you to proceed
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And justly and religiously unfold
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Why the law Salique that they have in France
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Or should, or should not, bar us in our claim:
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And God forbid, my dear and faithful lord,
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That you should fashion, wrest, or bow your reading,
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Or nicely charge your understanding soul
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With opening titles miscreate, whose right
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Suits not in native colours with the truth;
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For God doth know how many now in health
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Shall drop their blood in approbation
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Of what your reverence shall incite us to.
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Therefore take heed how you impawn our person,
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How you awake our sleeping sword of war:
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We charge you, in the name of God, take heed;
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For never two such kingdoms did contend
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Without much fall of blood; whose guiltless drops
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Are every one a woe, a sore complaint
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'Gainst him whose wrong gives edge unto the swords
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That make such waste in brief mortality.
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Under this conjuration, speak, my lord;
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For we will hear, note and believe in heart
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That what you speak is in your conscience wash'd
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As pure as sin with baptism.
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CANTERBURY
Then hear me, gracious sovereign, and you peers,
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That owe yourselves, your lives and services
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To this imperial throne. There is no bar
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To make against your highness' claim to France
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But this, which they produce from Pharamond,
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'In terram Salicam mulieres ne succedant:'
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'No woman shall succeed in Salique land:'
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Which Salique land the French unjustly gloze
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To be the realm of France, and Pharamond
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The founder of this law and female bar.
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Yet their own authors faithfully affirm
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That the land Salique is in Germany,
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Between the floods of Sala and of Elbe;
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Where Charles the Great, having subdued the Saxons,
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There left behind and settled certain French;
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Who, holding in disdain the German women
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For some dishonest manners of their life,
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Establish'd then this law; to wit, no female
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Should be inheritrix in Salique land:
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Which Salique, as I said, 'twixt Elbe and Sala,
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Is at this day in Germany call'd Meisen.
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Then doth it well appear that Salique law
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Was not devised for the realm of France:
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Nor did the French possess the Salique land
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Until four hundred one and twenty years
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After defunction of King Pharamond,
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Idly supposed the founder of this law;
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Who died within the year of our redemption
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Four hundred twenty-six; and Charles the Great
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Subdued the Saxons, and did seat the French
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Beyond the river Sala, in the year
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Eight hundred five. Besides, their writers say,
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King Pepin, which deposed Childeric,
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Did, as heir general, being descended
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Of Blithild, which was daughter to King Clothair,
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Make claim and title to the crown of France.
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Hugh Capet also, who usurped the crown
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Of Charles the duke of Lorraine, sole heir male
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Of the true line and stock of Charles the Great,
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To find his title with some shows of truth,
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'Through, in pure truth, it was corrupt and naught,
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Convey'd himself as heir to the Lady Lingare,
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Daughter to Charlemain, who was the son
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To Lewis the emperor, and Lewis the son
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Of Charles the Great. Also King Lewis the Tenth,
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Who was sole heir to the usurper Capet,
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Could not keep quiet in his conscience,
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Wearing the crown of France, till satisfied
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That fair Queen Isabel, his grandmother,
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Was lineal of the Lady Ermengare,
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Daughter to Charles the foresaid duke of Lorraine:
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By the which marriage the line of Charles the Great
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Was re-united to the crown of France.
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So that, as clear as is the summer's sun.
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King Pepin's title and Hugh Capet's claim,
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King Lewis his satisfaction, all appear
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To hold in right and title of the female:
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So do the kings of France unto this day;
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Howbeit they would hold up this Salique law
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To bar your highness claiming from the female,
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And rather choose to hide them in a net
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Than amply to imbar their crooked titles
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Usurp'd from you and your progenitors.
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KING HENRY V
May I with right and conscience make this claim?
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CANTERBURY
The sin upon my head, dread sovereign!
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For in the book of Numbers is it writ,
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When the man dies, let the inheritance
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Descend unto the daughter. Gracious lord,
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Stand for your own; unwind your bloody flag;
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Look back into your mighty ancestors:
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Go, my dread lord, to your great-grandsire's tomb,
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From whom you claim; invoke his warlike spirit,
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And your great-uncle's, Edward the Black Prince,
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Who on the French ground play'd a tragedy,
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Making defeat on the full power of France,
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Whiles his most mighty father on a hill
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Stood smiling to behold his lion's whelp
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Forage in blood of French nobility.
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O noble English. that could entertain
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With half their forces the full Pride of France
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And let another half stand laughing by,
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All out of work and cold for action!
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ELY
Awake remembrance of these valiant dead
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And with your puissant arm renew their feats:
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You are their heir; you sit upon their throne;
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The blood and courage that renowned them
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Runs in your veins; and my thrice-puissant liege
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Is in the very May-morn of his youth,
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Ripe for exploits and mighty enterprises.
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EXETER
Your brother kings and monarchs of the earth
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Do all expect that you should rouse yourself,
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As did the former lions of your blood.
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WESTMORELAND
They know your grace hath cause and means and might;
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So hath your highness; never king of England
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Had nobles richer and more loyal subjects,
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Whose hearts have left their bodies here in England
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And lie pavilion'd in the fields of France.
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CANTERBURY
O, let their bodies follow, my dear liege,
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With blood and sword and fire to win your right;
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In aid whereof we of the spiritualty
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Will raise your highness such a mighty sum
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As never did the clergy at one time
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Bring in to any of your ancestors.
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KING HENRY V
We must not only arm to invade the French,
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But lay down our proportions to defend
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Against the Scot, who will make road upon us
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With all advantages.
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CANTERBURY
They of those marches, gracious sovereign,
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Shall be a wall sufficient to defend
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Our inland from the pilfering borderers.
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KING HENRY V
We do not mean the coursing snatchers only,
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But fear the main intendment of the Scot,
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Who hath been still a giddy neighbour to us;
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For you shall read that my great-grandfather
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Never went with his forces into France
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But that the Scot on his unfurnish'd kingdom
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Came pouring, like the tide into a breach,
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With ample and brim fulness of his force,
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Galling the gleaned land with hot assays,
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Girding with grievous siege castles and towns;
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That England, being empty of defence,
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Hath shook and trembled at the ill neighbourhood.
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CANTERBURY
She hath been then more fear'd than harm'd, my liege;
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For hear her but exampled by herself:
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When all her chivalry hath been in France
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And she a mourning widow of her nobles,
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She hath herself not only well defended
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But taken and impounded as a stray
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The King of Scots; whom she did send to France,
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To fill King Edward's fame with prisoner kings
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And make her chronicle as rich with praise
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As is the ooze and bottom of the sea
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With sunken wreck and sunless treasuries.
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WESTMORELAND
But there's a saying very old and true,
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'If that you will France win,
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Then with Scotland first begin:'
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For once the eagle England being in prey,
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To her unguarded nest the weasel Scot
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Comes sneaking and so sucks her princely eggs,
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Playing the mouse in absence of the cat,
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To tear and havoc more than she can eat.
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EXETER
It follows then the cat must stay at home:
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Yet that is but a crush'd necessity,
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Since we have locks to safeguard necessaries,
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And pretty traps to catch the petty thieves.
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While that the armed hand doth fight abroad,
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The advised head defends itself at home;
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For government, though high and low and lower,
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Put into parts, doth keep in one consent,
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Congreeing in a full and natural close,
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Like music.
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CANTERBURY
Therefore doth heaven divide
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The state of man in divers functions,
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Setting endeavour in continual motion;
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To which is fixed, as an aim or butt,
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Obedience: for so work the honey-bees,
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Creatures that by a rule in nature teach
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The act of order to a peopled kingdom.
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They have a king and officers of sorts;
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Where some, like magistrates, correct at home,
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Others, like merchants, venture trade abroad,
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Others, like soldiers, armed in their stings,
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Make boot upon the summer's velvet buds,
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Which pillage they with merry march bring home
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To the tent-royal of their emperor;
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Who, busied in his majesty, surveys
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The singing masons building roofs of gold,
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The civil citizens kneading up the honey,
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The poor mechanic porters crowding in
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Their heavy burdens at his narrow gate,
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The sad-eyed justice, with his surly hum,
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Delivering o'er to executors pale
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The lazy yawning drone. I this infer,
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That many things, having full reference
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To one consent, may work contrariously:
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As many arrows, loosed several ways,
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Come to one mark; as many ways meet in one town;
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As many fresh streams meet in one salt sea;
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As many lines close in the dial's centre;
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So may a thousand actions, once afoot.
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End in one purpose, and be all well borne
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Without defeat. Therefore to France, my liege.
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Divide your happy England into four;
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Whereof take you one quarter into France,
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And you withal shall make all Gallia shake.
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If we, with thrice such powers left at home,
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Cannot defend our own doors from the dog,
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Let us be worried and our nation lose
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The name of hardiness and policy.
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KING HENRY V
Call in the messengers sent from the Dauphin.
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Now are we well resolved; and, by God's help,
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And yours, the noble sinews of our power,
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France being ours, we'll bend it to our awe,
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Or break it all to pieces: or there we'll sit,
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Ruling in large and ample empery
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O'er France and all her almost kingly dukedoms,
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Or lay these bones in an unworthy urn,
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Tombless, with no remembrance over them:
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Either our history shall with full mouth
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Speak freely of our acts, or else our grave,
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Like Turkish mute, shall have a tongueless mouth,
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Not worshipp'd with a waxen epitaph.
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Now are we well prepared to know the pleasure
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Of our fair cousin Dauphin; for we hear
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Your greeting is from him, not from the king.
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First Ambassador
May't please your majesty to give us leave
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Freely to render what we have in charge;
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Or shall we sparingly show you far off
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The Dauphin's meaning and our embassy?
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KING HENRY V
We are no tyrant, but a Christian king;
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Unto whose grace our passion is as subject
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As are our wretches fetter'd in our prisons:
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Therefore with frank and with uncurbed plainness
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Tell us the Dauphin's mind.
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First Ambassador
Thus, then, in few.
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Your highness, lately sending into France,
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Did claim some certain dukedoms, in the right
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Of your great predecessor, King Edward the Third.
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In answer of which claim, the prince our master
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Says that you savour too much of your youth,
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And bids you be advised there's nought in France
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That can be with a nimble galliard won;
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You cannot revel into dukedoms there.
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He therefore sends you, meeter for your spirit,
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This tun of treasure; and, in lieu of this,
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Desires you let the dukedoms that you claim
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Hear no more of you. This the Dauphin speaks.
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KING HENRY V
What treasure, uncle?
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EXETER
Tennis-balls, my liege.
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KING HENRY V
We are glad the Dauphin is so pleasant with us;
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His present and your pains we thank you for:
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When we have march'd our rackets to these balls,
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We will, in France, by God's grace, play a set
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Shall strike his father's crown into the hazard.
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Tell him he hath made a match with such a wrangler
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That all the courts of France will be disturb'd
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With chaces. And we understand him well,
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How he comes o'er us with our wilder days,
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Not measuring what use we made of them.
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We never valued this poor seat of England;
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And therefore, living hence, did give ourself
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To barbarous licence; as 'tis ever common
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That men are merriest when they are from home.
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But tell the Dauphin I will keep my state,
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Be like a king and show my sail of greatness
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When I do rouse me in my throne of France:
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For that I have laid by my majesty
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And plodded like a man for working-days,
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But I will rise there with so full a glory
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That I will dazzle all the eyes of France,
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Yea, strike the Dauphin blind to look on us.
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And tell the pleasant prince this mock of his
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Hath turn'd his balls to gun-stones; and his soul
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Shall stand sore charged for the wasteful vengeance
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That shall fly with them: for many a thousand widows
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Shall this his mock mock out of their dear husbands;
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Mock mothers from their sons, mock castles down;
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And some are yet ungotten and unborn
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That shall have cause to curse the Dauphin's scorn.
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But this lies all within the will of God,
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To whom I do appeal; and in whose name
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Tell you the Dauphin I am coming on,
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To venge me as I may and to put forth
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My rightful hand in a well-hallow'd cause.
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So get you hence in peace; and tell the Dauphin
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His jest will savour but of shallow wit,
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When thousands weep more than did laugh at it.
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Convey them with safe conduct. Fare you well.
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Exeunt Ambassadors

EXETER
This was a merry message.
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KING HENRY V
We hope to make the sender blush at it.
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Therefore, my lords, omit no happy hour
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That may give furtherance to our expedition;
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For we have now no thought in us but France,
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Save those to God, that run before our business.
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Therefore let our proportions for these wars
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Be soon collected and all things thought upon
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That may with reasonable swiftness add
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More feathers to our wings; for, God before,
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We'll chide this Dauphin at his father's door.
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Therefore let every man now task his thought,
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That this fair action may on foot be brought.
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Exeunt. Flourish

Act II

Act 2 of Henry V follows King Henry and his army as they march towards the French city of Harfleur. The English are met with resistance from the French, who taunt them from the city walls. Undeterred, Henry delivers a rousing speech to his troops, urging them to have courage and determination in the face of adversity.

The English forces launch an attack on Harfleur, but despite their initial success, they soon find themselves struggling against the French defenders. The English soldiers grow tired and disheartened, and many fall in battle. However, Henry remains determined to capture the city, and he continues to lead his troops forward, encouraging them to keep fighting.

In the end, the English are victorious, and they take control of Harfleur. However, the battle has taken its toll on the soldiers, and many are injured or killed. Henry is also affected by the violence he has witnessed, and he reflects on the heavy responsibility he bears as king.

Overall, Act 2 of Henry V is a dramatic depiction of warfare and the toll it takes on those who participate in it. It also highlights the bravery and determination of the English soldiers, as well as the leadership and charisma of King Henry.

PROLOGUE

Enter Chorus

Chorus
Now all the youth of England are on fire,
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And silken dalliance in the wardrobe lies:
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Now thrive the armourers, and honour's thought
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Reigns solely in the breast of every man:
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They sell the pasture now to buy the horse,
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Following the mirror of all Christian kings,
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With winged heels, as English Mercuries.
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For now sits Expectation in the air,
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And hides a sword from hilts unto the point
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With crowns imperial, crowns and coronets,
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Promised to Harry and his followers.
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The French, advised by good intelligence
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Of this most dreadful preparation,
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Shake in their fear and with pale policy
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Seek to divert the English purposes.
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O England! model to thy inward greatness,
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Like little body with a mighty heart,
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What mightst thou do, that honour would thee do,
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Were all thy children kind and natural!
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But see thy fault! France hath in thee found out
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A nest of hollow bosoms, which he fills
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With treacherous crowns; and three corrupted men,
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One, Richard Earl of Cambridge, and the second,
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Henry Lord Scroop of Masham, and the third,
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Sir Thomas Grey, knight, of Northumberland,
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Have, for the gilt of France,--O guilt indeed!
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Confirm'd conspiracy with fearful France;
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And by their hands this grace of kings must die,
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If hell and treason hold their promises,
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Ere he take ship for France, and in Southampton.
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Linger your patience on; and we'll digest
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The abuse of distance; force a play:
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The sum is paid; the traitors are agreed;
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The king is set from London; and the scene
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Is now transported, gentles, to Southampton;
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There is the playhouse now, there must you sit:
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And thence to France shall we convey you safe,
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And bring you back, charming the narrow seas
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To give you gentle pass; for, if we may,
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We'll not offend one stomach with our play.
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But, till the king come forth, and not till then,
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Unto Southampton do we shift our scene.
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Exit

SCENE I. London. A street.

Act 2 Scene 1 begins with the French Princess Katherine trying to learn English from her waiting gentlewoman, Alice. They are interrupted by the arrival of Katherine's father, the King of France, and her uncle, the Duke of Burgundy. They discuss the English army's recent victory at Harfleur and the threat it poses to France. The Duke of Burgundy suggests that they make a peace offering to the English, but the King of France is hesitant.

Meanwhile, in the English camp, King Henry V receives news that the French are gathering their forces and preparing for battle. He rallies his troops and gives a rousing speech, urging them to fight bravely and honorably. As he leaves to prepare for battle, he encounters three common soldiers who are discussing the war. Henry disguises himself and joins in their conversation, learning more about their thoughts and feelings on the matter.

The scene ends with the French Princess Katherine once again attempting to learn English from Alice. They are interrupted by the arrival of a messenger who brings news of the English army's approach. Katherine is nervous and afraid, but Alice reassures her that the English are honorable and will not harm them.

Enter Corporal NYM and Lieutenant BARDOLPH

BARDOLPH
Well met, Corporal Nym.
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NYM
Good morrow, Lieutenant Bardolph.
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BARDOLPH
What, are Ancient Pistol and you friends yet?
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NYM
For my part, I care not: I say little; but when
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time shall serve, there shall be smiles; but that
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shall be as it may. I dare not fight; but I will
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wink and hold out mine iron: it is a simple one; but
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what though? it will toast cheese, and it will
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endure cold as another man's sword will: and
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there's an end.
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BARDOLPH
I will bestow a breakfast to make you friends; and
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we'll be all three sworn brothers to France: let it
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be so, good Corporal Nym.
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NYM
Faith, I will live so long as I may, that's the
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certain of it; and when I cannot live any longer, I
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will do as I may: that is my rest, that is the
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rendezvous of it.
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BARDOLPH
It is certain, corporal, that he is married to Nell
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Quickly: and certainly she did you wrong; for you
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were troth-plight to her.
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NYM
I cannot tell: things must be as they may: men may
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sleep, and they may have their throats about them at
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that time; and some say knives have edges. It must
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be as it may: though patience be a tired mare, yet
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she will plod. There must be conclusions. Well, I
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cannot tell.
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Enter PISTOL and Hostess

BARDOLPH
Here comes Ancient Pistol and his wife: good
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corporal, be patient here. How now, mine host Pistol!
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PISTOL
Base tike, call'st thou me host? Now, by this hand,
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I swear, I scorn the term; Nor shall my Nell keep lodgers.
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Hostess
No, by my troth, not long; for we cannot lodge and
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board a dozen or fourteen gentlewomen that live
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honestly by the prick of their needles, but it will
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be thought we keep a bawdy house straight.
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O well a day, Lady, if he be not drawn now! we
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shall see wilful adultery and murder committed.
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BARDOLPH
Good lieutenant! good corporal! offer nothing here.
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NYM

PISTOL
Pish for thee, Iceland dog! thou prick-ear'd cur of Iceland!
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Hostess
Good Corporal Nym, show thy valour, and put up your sword.
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NYM
Will you shog off? I would have you solus.
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PISTOL
'Solus,' egregious dog? O viper vile!
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The 'solus' in thy most mervailous face;
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The 'solus' in thy teeth, and in thy throat,
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And in thy hateful lungs, yea, in thy maw, perdy,
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And, which is worse, within thy nasty mouth!
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I do retort the 'solus' in thy bowels;
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For I can take, and Pistol's cock is up,
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And flashing fire will follow.
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NYM
I am not Barbason; you cannot conjure me. I have an
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humour to knock you indifferently well. If you grow
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foul with me, Pistol, I will scour you with my
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rapier, as I may, in fair terms: if you would walk
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off, I would prick your guts a little, in good
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terms, as I may: and that's the humour of it.
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PISTOL
O braggart vile and damned furious wight!
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The grave doth gape, and doting death is near;
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Therefore exhale.
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BARDOLPH
Hear me, hear me what I say: he that strikes the
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first stroke, I'll run him up to the hilts, as I am a soldier.
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Draws

PISTOL
An oath of mickle might; and fury shall abate.
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Give me thy fist, thy fore-foot to me give:
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Thy spirits are most tall.
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NYM
I will cut thy throat, one time or other, in fair
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terms: that is the humour of it.
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PISTOL
'Couple a gorge!'
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That is the word. I thee defy again.
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O hound of Crete, think'st thou my spouse to get?
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No; to the spital go,
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And from the powdering tub of infamy
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Fetch forth the lazar kite of Cressid's kind,
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Doll Tearsheet she by name, and her espouse:
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I have, and I will hold, the quondam Quickly
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For the only she; and--pauca, there's enough. Go to.
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Enter the Boy

Boy
Mine host Pistol, you must come to my master, and
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you, hostess: he is very sick, and would to bed.
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Good Bardolph, put thy face between his sheets, and
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do the office of a warming-pan. Faith, he's very ill.
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BARDOLPH
Away, you rogue!
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Hostess
By my troth, he'll yield the crow a pudding one of
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these days. The king has killed his heart. Good
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husband, come home presently.
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Exeunt Hostess and Boy

BARDOLPH
Come, shall I make you two friends? We must to
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France together: why the devil should we keep
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knives to cut one another's throats?
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PISTOL
Let floods o'erswell, and fiends for food howl on!
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NYM
You'll pay me the eight shillings I won of you at betting?
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PISTOL
Base is the slave that pays.
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NYM
That now I will have: that's the humour of it.
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PISTOL
As manhood shall compound: push home.
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They draw

BARDOLPH
By this sword, he that makes the first thrust, I'll
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kill him; by this sword, I will.
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PISTOL
Sword is an oath, and oaths must have their course.
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BARDOLPH
Corporal Nym, an thou wilt be friends, be friends:
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an thou wilt not, why, then, be enemies with me too.
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Prithee, put up.
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NYM
I shall have my eight shillings I won of you at betting?
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PISTOL
A noble shalt thou have, and present pay;
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And liquor likewise will I give to thee,
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And friendship shall combine, and brotherhood:
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I'll live by Nym, and Nym shall live by me;
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Is not this just? for I shall sutler be
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Unto the camp, and profits will accrue.
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Give me thy hand.
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NYM
I shall have my noble?
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PISTOL
In cash most justly paid.
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NYM
Well, then, that's the humour of't.
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Re-enter Hostess

Hostess
As ever you came of women, come in quickly to Sir
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John. Ah, poor heart! he is so shaked of a burning
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quotidian tertian, that it is most lamentable to
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behold. Sweet men, come to him.
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NYM
The king hath run bad humours on the knight; that's
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the even of it.
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PISTOL
Nym, thou hast spoke the right;
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His heart is fracted and corroborate.
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NYM
The king is a good king: but it must be as it may;
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he passes some humours and careers.
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PISTOL
Let us condole the knight; for, lambkins we will live.
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SCENE II. Southampton. A council-chamber.

Scene 2 of Act 2 begins with a group of common soldiers discussing their fears and doubts about the upcoming battle against the French. They express their concerns about the superiority of the French army and worry that they will not be able to win. However, one of the soldiers, Pistol, tries to boost their morale by boasting about his own bravery and encouraging them to fight with honor.

Shortly after, the Duke of Exeter enters and informs the soldiers that the king is coming to speak with them. When King Henry V arrives, he disguises himself as a commoner and engages in a conversation with the soldiers. He asks them about their thoughts and feelings regarding the war, and they express their doubts and fears once again.

The king then delivers a powerful speech, known as the "St. Crispin's Day Speech," in which he inspires the soldiers to fight with courage and determination. He reminds them that they are all equal on the battlefield and that victory is possible if they work together. The soldiers are moved by the king's words and pledge to fight for him and for England.

Scene 2 of Act 2 is a pivotal moment in the play as it showcases King Henry V's leadership skills and his ability to inspire his troops. It also highlights the struggles and fears of common soldiers during a time of war and the importance of morale in battle. The scene sets the stage for the climactic battle between the English and the French, which takes place in Act 4.

Enter EXETER, BEDFORD, and WESTMORELAND

BEDFORD
'Fore God, his grace is bold, to trust these traitors.
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EXETER
They shall be apprehended by and by.
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WESTMORELAND
How smooth and even they do bear themselves!
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As if allegiance in their bosoms sat,
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Crowned with faith and constant loyalty.
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BEDFORD
The king hath note of all that they intend,
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By interception which they dream not of.
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EXETER
Nay, but the man that was his bedfellow,
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Whom he hath dull'd and cloy'd with gracious favours,
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That he should, for a foreign purse, so sell
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His sovereign's life to death and treachery.
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Trumpets sound. Enter KING HENRY V, SCROOP, CAMBRIDGE, GREY, and Attendants

KING HENRY V
Now sits the wind fair, and we will aboard.
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My Lord of Cambridge, and my kind Lord of Masham,
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And you, my gentle knight, give me your thoughts:
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Think you not that the powers we bear with us
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Will cut their passage through the force of France,
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Doing the execution and the act
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For which we have in head assembled them?
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SCROOP
No doubt, my liege, if each man do his best.
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KING HENRY V
I doubt not that; since we are well persuaded
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We carry not a heart with us from hence
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That grows not in a fair consent with ours,
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Nor leave not one behind that doth not wish
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Success and conquest to attend on us.
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CAMBRIDGE
Never was monarch better fear'd and loved
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Than is your majesty: there's not, I think, a subject
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That sits in heart-grief and uneasiness
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Under the sweet shade of your government.
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GREY
True: those that were your father's enemies
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Have steep'd their galls in honey and do serve you
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With hearts create of duty and of zeal.
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KING HENRY V
We therefore have great cause of thankfulness;
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And shall forget the office of our hand,
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Sooner than quittance of desert and merit
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According to the weight and worthiness.
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SCROOP
So service shall with steeled sinews toil,
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And labour shall refresh itself with hope,
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To do your grace incessant services.
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KING HENRY V
We judge no less. Uncle of Exeter,
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Enlarge the man committed yesterday,
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That rail'd against our person: we consider
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it was excess of wine that set him on;
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And on his more advice we pardon him.
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SCROOP
That's mercy, but too much security:
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Let him be punish'd, sovereign, lest example
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Breed, by his sufferance, more of such a kind.
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KING HENRY V
O, let us yet be merciful.
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CAMBRIDGE
So may your highness, and yet punish too.
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GREY
You show great mercy, if you give him life,
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After the taste of much correction.
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KING HENRY V
Alas, your too much love and care of me
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Are heavy orisons 'gainst this poor wretch!
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If little faults, proceeding on distemper,
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Shall not be wink'd at, how shall we stretch our eye
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When capital crimes, chew'd, swallow'd and digested,
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Appear before us? We'll yet enlarge that man,
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Though Cambridge, Scroop and Grey, in their dear care
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And tender preservation of our person,
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Would have him punished. And now to our French causes:
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Who are the late commissioners?
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CAMBRIDGE
I one, my lord:
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Your highness bade me ask for it to-day.
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SCROOP
So did you me, my liege.
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GREY
And I, my royal sovereign.
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KING HENRY V
Then, Richard Earl of Cambridge, there is yours;
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There yours, Lord Scroop of Masham; and, sir knight,
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Grey of Northumberland, this same is yours:
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Read them; and know, I know your worthiness.
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My Lord of Westmoreland, and uncle Exeter,
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We will aboard to night. Why, how now, gentlemen!
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What see you in those papers that you lose
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So much complexion? Look ye, how they change!
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Their cheeks are paper. Why, what read you there
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That hath so cowarded and chased your blood
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Out of appearance?
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CAMBRIDGE
I do confess my fault;
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And do submit me to your highness' mercy.
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GREY
To which we all appeal.
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KING HENRY V
The mercy that was quick in us but late,
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By your own counsel is suppress'd and kill'd:
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You must not dare, for shame, to talk of mercy;
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For your own reasons turn into your bosoms,
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As dogs upon their masters, worrying you.
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See you, my princes, and my noble peers,
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These English monsters! My Lord of Cambridge here,
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You know how apt our love was to accord
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To furnish him with all appertinents
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Belonging to his honour; and this man
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Hath, for a few light crowns, lightly conspired,
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And sworn unto the practises of France,
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To kill us here in Hampton: to the which
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This knight, no less for bounty bound to us
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Than Cambridge is, hath likewise sworn. But, O,
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What shall I say to thee, Lord Scroop? thou cruel,
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Ingrateful, savage and inhuman creature!
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Thou that didst bear the key of all my counsels,
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That knew'st the very bottom of my soul,
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That almost mightst have coin'd me into gold,
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Wouldst thou have practised on me for thy use,
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May it be possible, that foreign hire
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Could out of thee extract one spark of evil
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That might annoy my finger? 'tis so strange,
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That, though the truth of it stands off as gross
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As black and white, my eye will scarcely see it.
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Treason and murder ever kept together,
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As two yoke-devils sworn to either's purpose,
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Working so grossly in a natural cause,
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That admiration did not whoop at them:
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But thou, 'gainst all proportion, didst bring in
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Wonder to wait on treason and on murder:
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And whatsoever cunning fiend it was
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That wrought upon thee so preposterously
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Hath got the voice in hell for excellence:
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All other devils that suggest by treasons
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Do botch and bungle up damnation
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With patches, colours, and with forms being fetch'd
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From glistering semblances of piety;
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But he that temper'd thee bade thee stand up,
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Gave thee no instance why thou shouldst do treason,
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Unless to dub thee with the name of traitor.
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If that same demon that hath gull'd thee thus
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Should with his lion gait walk the whole world,
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He might return to vasty Tartar back,
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And tell the legions 'I can never win
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A soul so easy as that Englishman's.'
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O, how hast thou with 'jealousy infected
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The sweetness of affiance! Show men dutiful?
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Why, so didst thou: seem they grave and learned?
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Why, so didst thou: come they of noble family?
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Why, so didst thou: seem they religious?
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Why, so didst thou: or are they spare in diet,
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Free from gross passion or of mirth or anger,
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Constant in spirit, not swerving with the blood,
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Garnish'd and deck'd in modest complement,
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Not working with the eye without the ear,
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And but in purged judgment trusting neither?
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Such and so finely bolted didst thou seem:
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And thus thy fall hath left a kind of blot,
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To mark the full-fraught man and best indued
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With some suspicion. I will weep for thee;
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For this revolt of thine, methinks, is like
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Another fall of man. Their faults are open:
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Arrest them to the answer of the law;
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And God acquit them of their practises!
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EXETER
I arrest thee of high treason, by the name of
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Richard Earl of Cambridge.
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I arrest thee of high treason, by the name of
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Henry Lord Scroop of Masham.
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I arrest thee of high treason, by the name of
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Thomas Grey, knight, of Northumberland.
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SCROOP
Our purposes God justly hath discover'd;
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And I repent my fault more than my death;
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Which I beseech your highness to forgive,
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Although my body pay the price of it.
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CAMBRIDGE
For me, the gold of France did not seduce;
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Although I did admit it as a motive
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The sooner to effect what I intended:
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But God be thanked for prevention;
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Which I in sufferance heartily will rejoice,
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Beseeching God and you to pardon me.
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GREY
Never did faithful subject more rejoice
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At the discovery of most dangerous treason
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Than I do at this hour joy o'er myself.
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Prevented from a damned enterprise:
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My fault, but not my body, pardon, sovereign.
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KING HENRY V
God quit you in his mercy! Hear your sentence.
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You have conspired against our royal person,
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Join'd with an enemy proclaim'd and from his coffers
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Received the golden earnest of our death;
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Wherein you would have sold your king to slaughter,
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His princes and his peers to servitude,
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His subjects to oppression and contempt
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And his whole kingdom into desolation.
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Touching our person seek we no revenge;
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But we our kingdom's safety must so tender,
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Whose ruin you have sought, that to her laws
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We do deliver you. Get you therefore hence,
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Poor miserable wretches, to your death:
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The taste whereof, God of his mercy give
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You patience to endure, and true repentance
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Of all your dear offences! Bear them hence.
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Now, lords, for France; the enterprise whereof
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Shall be to you, as us, like glorious.
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We doubt not of a fair and lucky war,
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Since God so graciously hath brought to light
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This dangerous treason lurking in our way
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To hinder our beginnings. We doubt not now
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But every rub is smoothed on our way.
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Then forth, dear countrymen: let us deliver
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Our puissance into the hand of God,
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Putting it straight in expedition.
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Cheerly to sea; the signs of war advance:
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No king of England, if not king of France.
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Exeunt

SCENE III. London. Before a tavern.

Scene 3 of Act 2 of Henry V takes place in the French court where the French King, his son the Dauphin, and their advisors are discussing the English invasion. The Dauphin is confident that the English will be defeated easily, and he insults the English King Henry V by sending him a box of tennis balls, implying that he is more interested in frivolous activities than war.

The French King tries to calm his son and suggests that they send an ambassador to negotiate with Henry V. The Duke of Exeter, who is present at the meeting, informs the French King that Henry V has no interest in negotiation and is determined to go to war. The French King decides to send the Archbishop of Bourges to meet with Henry V and try to persuade him to avoid war.

The Dauphin continues to mock Henry V, but the French King rebukes him and reminds him of the English King's military prowess. The French King also expresses concern about the loyalty of some of his own nobles, who may be sympathetic to the English cause. The scene ends with the French King and his advisors discussing their strategy for the upcoming battle.

Enter PISTOL, Hostess, NYM, BARDOLPH, and Boy

Hostess
Prithee, honey-sweet husband, let me bring thee to Staines.
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PISTOL
No; for my manly heart doth yearn.
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Bardolph, be blithe: Nym, rouse thy vaunting veins:
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Boy, bristle thy courage up; for Falstaff he is dead,
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And we must yearn therefore.
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BARDOLPH
Would I were with him, wheresome'er he is, either in
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heaven or in hell!
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Hostess
Nay, sure, he's not in hell: he's in Arthur's
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bosom, if ever man went to Arthur's bosom. A' made
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a finer end and went away an it had been any
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christom child; a' parted even just between twelve
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and one, even at the turning o' the tide: for after
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I saw him fumble with the sheets and play with
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flowers and smile upon his fingers' ends, I knew
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there was but one way; for his nose was as sharp as
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a pen, and a' babbled of green fields. 'How now,
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sir John!' quoth I 'what, man! be o' good
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cheer.' So a' cried out 'God, God, God!' three or
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four times. Now I, to comfort him, bid him a'
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should not think of God; I hoped there was no need
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to trouble himself with any such thoughts yet. So
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a' bade me lay more clothes on his feet: I put my
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hand into the bed and felt them, and they were as
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cold as any stone; then I felt to his knees, and
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they were as cold as any stone, and so upward and
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upward, and all was as cold as any stone.
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NYM
They say he cried out of sack.
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Hostess
Ay, that a' did.
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BARDOLPH
And of women.
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Hostess
Nay, that a' did not.
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Boy
Yes, that a' did; and said they were devils
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incarnate.
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Hostess
A' could never abide carnation; 'twas a colour he
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never liked.
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Boy
A' said once, the devil would have him about women.
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Hostess
A' did in some sort, indeed, handle women; but then
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he was rheumatic, and talked of the whore of Babylon.
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Boy
Do you not remember, a' saw a flea stick upon
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Bardolph's nose, and a' said it was a black soul
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burning in hell-fire?
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BARDOLPH
Well, the fuel is gone that maintained that fire:
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that's all the riches I got in his service.
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NYM
Shall we shog? the king will be gone from
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Southampton.
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PISTOL
Come, let's away. My love, give me thy lips.
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Look to my chattels and my movables:
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Let senses rule; the word is 'Pitch and Pay:'
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Trust none;
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For oaths are straws, men's faiths are wafer-cakes,
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And hold-fast is the only dog, my duck:
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Therefore, Caveto be thy counsellor.
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Go, clear thy crystals. Yoke-fellows in arms,
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Let us to France; like horse-leeches, my boys,
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To suck, to suck, the very blood to suck!
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Boy
And that's but unwholesome food they say.
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PISTOL
Touch her soft mouth, and march.
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BARDOLPH
Farewell, hostess.
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Kissing her

NYM
I cannot kiss, that is the humour of it; but, adieu.
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PISTOL
Let housewifery appear: keep close, I thee command.
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Hostess
Farewell; adieu.
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Exeunt

SCENE IV. France. The KING'S palace.

Scene 4 of Act 2 takes place in the French camp where the French king and his nobles are discussing the imminent battle with the English. The French king is worried about the strength of the English army and fears defeat. However, the Constable of France assures him that they have a superior force and that victory is certain. The Dauphin, who is the French prince, mocks the English king and dismisses him as a weak and inexperienced leader. He also boasts about his own prowess in battle and says that he will capture the English king and present him to his father as a gift.

The conversation then turns to the French troops and their readiness for battle. The Duke of Bourbon expresses concern about the quality of some of the soldiers and suggests that they should wait for reinforcements before engaging the English. The Constable dismisses his concerns and says that they cannot delay any longer as the English are already on the move. The French king agrees and orders his army to prepare for battle.

The scene ends with the arrival of a messenger who brings news that the English army has divided its forces and is marching towards the French camp with the intention of attacking it. The French nobles are shocked by this news and begin to panic. The French king orders his troops to prepare for battle and urges them to fight bravely for their country.

Flourish. Enter the FRENCH KING, the DAUPHIN, the DUKES of BERRI and BRETAGNE, the Constable, and others

KING OF FRANCE
Thus comes the English with full power upon us;
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And more than carefully it us concerns
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To answer royally in our defences.
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Therefore the Dukes of Berri and of Bretagne,
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Of Brabant and of Orleans, shall make forth,
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And you, Prince Dauphin, with all swift dispatch,
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To line and new repair our towns of war
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With men of courage and with means defendant;
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For England his approaches makes as fierce
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As waters to the sucking of a gulf.
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It fits us then to be as provident
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As fear may teach us out of late examples
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Left by the fatal and neglected English
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Upon our fields.
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DAUPHIN
My most redoubted father,
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It is most meet we arm us 'gainst the foe;
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For peace itself should not so dull a kingdom,
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Though war nor no known quarrel were in question,
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But that defences, musters, preparations,
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Should be maintain'd, assembled and collected,
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As were a war in expectation.
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Therefore, I say 'tis meet we all go forth
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To view the sick and feeble parts of France:
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And let us do it with no show of fear;
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No, with no more than if we heard that England
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Were busied with a Whitsun morris-dance:
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For, my good liege, she is so idly king'd,
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Her sceptre so fantastically borne
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By a vain, giddy, shallow, humorous youth,
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That fear attends her not.
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Constable
O peace, Prince Dauphin!
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You are too much mistaken in this king:
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Question your grace the late ambassadors,
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With what great state he heard their embassy,
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How well supplied with noble counsellors,
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How modest in exception, and withal
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How terrible in constant resolution,
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And you shall find his vanities forespent
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Were but the outside of the Roman Brutus,
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Covering discretion with a coat of folly;
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As gardeners do with ordure hide those roots
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That shall first spring and be most delicate.
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DAUPHIN
Well, 'tis not so, my lord high constable;
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But though we think it so, it is no matter:
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In cases of defence 'tis best to weigh
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The enemy more mighty than he seems:
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So the proportions of defence are fill'd;
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Which of a weak or niggardly projection
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Doth, like a miser, spoil his coat with scanting
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A little cloth.
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KING OF FRANCE
Think we King Harry strong;
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And, princes, look you strongly arm to meet him.
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The kindred of him hath been flesh'd upon us;
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And he is bred out of that bloody strain
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That haunted us in our familiar paths:
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Witness our too much memorable shame
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When Cressy battle fatally was struck,
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And all our princes captiv'd by the hand
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Of that black name, Edward, Black Prince of Wales;
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Whiles that his mountain sire, on mountain standing,
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Up in the air, crown'd with the golden sun,
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Saw his heroical seed, and smiled to see him,
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Mangle the work of nature and deface
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The patterns that by God and by French fathers
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Had twenty years been made. This is a stem
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Of that victorious stock; and let us fear
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The native mightiness and fate of him.
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Enter a Messenger

Messenger
Ambassadors from Harry King of England
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Do crave admittance to your majesty.
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KING OF FRANCE
We'll give them present audience. Go, and bring them.
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You see this chase is hotly follow'd, friends.
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DAUPHIN
Turn head, and stop pursuit; for coward dogs
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Most spend their mouths when what they seem to threaten
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Runs far before them. Good my sovereign,
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Take up the English short, and let them know
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Of what a monarchy you are the head:
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Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin
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As self-neglecting.
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Re-enter Lords, with EXETER and train

KING OF FRANCE
From our brother England?
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EXETER
From him; and thus he greets your majesty.
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He wills you, in the name of God Almighty,
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That you divest yourself, and lay apart
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The borrow'd glories that by gift of heaven,
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By law of nature and of nations, 'long
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To him and to his heirs; namely, the crown
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And all wide-stretched honours that pertain
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By custom and the ordinance of times
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Unto the crown of France. That you may know
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'Tis no sinister nor no awkward claim,
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Pick'd from the worm-holes of long-vanish'd days,
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Nor from the dust of old oblivion raked,
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He sends you this most memorable line,
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In every branch truly demonstrative;
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Willing to overlook this pedigree:
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And when you find him evenly derived
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From his most famed of famous ancestors,
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Edward the Third, he bids you then resign
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Your crown and kingdom, indirectly held
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From him the native and true challenger.
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KING OF FRANCE
Or else what follows?
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EXETER
Bloody constraint; for if you hide the crown
Link: 2.4.101
Even in your hearts, there will he rake for it:
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Therefore in fierce tempest is he coming,
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In thunder and in earthquake, like a Jove,
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That, if requiring fail, he will compel;
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And bids you, in the bowels of the Lord,
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Deliver up the crown, and to take mercy
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On the poor souls for whom this hungry war
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Opens his vasty jaws; and on your head
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Turning the widows' tears, the orphans' cries
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The dead men's blood, the pining maidens groans,
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For husbands, fathers and betrothed lovers,
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That shall be swallow'd in this controversy.
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This is his claim, his threatening and my message;
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Unless the Dauphin be in presence here,
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To whom expressly I bring greeting too.
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KING OF FRANCE
For us, we will consider of this further:
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To-morrow shall you bear our full intent
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Back to our brother England.
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DAUPHIN
For the Dauphin,
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I stand here for him: what to him from England?
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EXETER
Scorn and defiance; slight regard, contempt,
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And any thing that may not misbecome
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The mighty sender, doth he prize you at.
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Thus says my king; an' if your father's highness
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Do not, in grant of all demands at large,
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Sweeten the bitter mock you sent his majesty,
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He'll call you to so hot an answer of it,
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That caves and womby vaultages of France
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Shall chide your trespass and return your mock
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In second accent of his ordnance.
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DAUPHIN
Say, if my father render fair return,
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It is against my will; for I desire
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Nothing but odds with England: to that end,
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As matching to his youth and vanity,
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I did present him with the Paris balls.
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EXETER
He'll make your Paris Louvre shake for it,
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Were it the mistress-court of mighty Europe:
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And, be assured, you'll find a difference,
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As we his subjects have in wonder found,
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Between the promise of his greener days
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And these he masters now: now he weighs time
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Even to the utmost grain: that you shall read
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In your own losses, if he stay in France.
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KING OF FRANCE
To-morrow shall you know our mind at full.
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EXETER
Dispatch us with all speed, lest that our king
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Come here himself to question our delay;
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For he is footed in this land already.
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KING OF FRANCE
You shall be soon dispatch's with fair conditions:
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A night is but small breath and little pause
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To answer matters of this consequence.
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Flourish. Exeunt

Act III

In Act 3 of Henry V, the English army is preparing to engage the French at the Battle of Agincourt. King Henry V delivers a famous speech to his troops, inspiring them to fight with all their might and take pride in their victory. The French send a herald to challenge the English to battle, but Henry dismisses him, declaring that the English will not back down.

The battle begins, and the French initially have the upper hand. However, the English archers rain down arrows on the French, causing chaos and confusion. The English then charge forward, engaging in hand-to-hand combat with the French. The English ultimately emerge victorious, and many French nobles are taken prisoner.

Throughout the act, there are also scenes involving various characters grappling with the realities of war. The Duke of Bourbon laments the destruction and loss of life that war brings, while the English soldier Pistol tries to make a profit by robbing French prisoners. The act ends with the English celebrating their victory and King Henry pondering his next move in the war.

PROLOGUE.

Enter Chorus

Chorus
Thus with imagined wing our swift scene flies
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In motion of no less celerity
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Than that of thought. Suppose that you have seen
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The well-appointed king at Hampton pier
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Embark his royalty; and his brave fleet
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With silken streamers the young Phoebus fanning:
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Play with your fancies, and in them behold
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Upon the hempen tackle ship-boys climbing;
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Hear the shrill whistle which doth order give
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To sounds confused; behold the threaden sails,
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Borne with the invisible and creeping wind,
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Draw the huge bottoms through the furrow'd sea,
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Breasting the lofty surge: O, do but think
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You stand upon the ravage and behold
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A city on the inconstant billows dancing;
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For so appears this fleet majestical,
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Holding due course to Harfleur. Follow, follow:
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Grapple your minds to sternage of this navy,
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And leave your England, as dead midnight still,
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Guarded with grandsires, babies and old women,
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Either past or not arrived to pith and puissance;
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For who is he, whose chin is but enrich'd
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With one appearing hair, that will not follow
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These cull'd and choice-drawn cavaliers to France?
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Work, work your thoughts, and therein see a siege;
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Behold the ordnance on their carriages,
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With fatal mouths gaping on girded Harfleur.
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Suppose the ambassador from the French comes back;
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Tells Harry that the king doth offer him
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Katharine his daughter, and with her, to dowry,
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Some petty and unprofitable dukedoms.
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The offer likes not: and the nimble gunner
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With linstock now the devilish cannon touches,
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And down goes all before them. Still be kind,
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And eke out our performance with your mind.
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Exit

SCENE I. France. Before Harfleur.

Scene 1 of Act 3 begins with the Duke of Exeter discussing with the French king's herald the terms of surrender offered by King Henry V. The French king's herald, Montjoy, states that the terms are reasonable but that the French king must consult with his council before making a decision.

King Henry V enters with his army, and Montjoy delivers the French king's response. The king of France refuses to surrender and instead demands that Henry V leave France immediately. Henry V responds with a rousing speech, declaring that he and his army will not leave until they have achieved victory.

Montjoy leaves to deliver Henry V's response to the French king, and the Duke of Exeter warns Henry V that they are outnumbered and outmatched. However, Henry V remains resolute, declaring that they will fight with honor and courage.

The scene ends with the arrival of a soldier who informs Henry V that a group of English soldiers have been executed by the French. This news only strengthens Henry V's resolve to win the battle.

Alarum. Enter KING HENRY, EXETER, BEDFORD, GLOUCESTER, and Soldiers, with scaling-ladders

KING HENRY V
Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more;
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Or close the wall up with our English dead.
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In peace there's nothing so becomes a man
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As modest stillness and humility:
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But when the blast of war blows in our ears,
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Then imitate the action of the tiger;
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Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood,
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Disguise fair nature with hard-favour'd rage;
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Then lend the eye a terrible aspect;
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Let pry through the portage of the head
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Like the brass cannon; let the brow o'erwhelm it
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As fearfully as doth a galled rock
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O'erhang and jutty his confounded base,
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Swill'd with the wild and wasteful ocean.
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Now set the teeth and stretch the nostril wide,
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Hold hard the breath and bend up every spirit
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To his full height. On, on, you noblest English.
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Whose blood is fet from fathers of war-proof!
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Fathers that, like so many Alexanders,
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Have in these parts from morn till even fought
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And sheathed their swords for lack of argument:
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Dishonour not your mothers; now attest
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That those whom you call'd fathers did beget you.
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Be copy now to men of grosser blood,
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And teach them how to war. And you, good yeoman,
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Whose limbs were made in England, show us here
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The mettle of your pasture; let us swear
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That you are worth your breeding; which I doubt not;
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For there is none of you so mean and base,
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That hath not noble lustre in your eyes.
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I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips,
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Straining upon the start. The game's afoot:
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Follow your spirit, and upon this charge
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Cry 'God for Harry, England, and Saint George!'
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Exeunt. Alarum, and chambers go off

SCENE II. The same.

Scene 2 of Act 3 begins with the French King's daughter, Katherine, trying to learn English with her gentlewoman, Alice. They are interrupted by the arrival of the Duke of Burgundy, who brings news of the English army's recent victory at Harfleur. The French King enters with his court, and the Duke of Burgundy explains that the English are now marching towards Calais.

The French King orders his court to prepare for battle, but the Duke of Burgundy suggests that they instead negotiate a peace treaty with the English. The King agrees and sends a message to the English camp, requesting a meeting with King Henry. The Duke of Exeter is sent to deliver the message.

As Exeter leaves, Katherine and Alice return to their English lesson. Katherine struggles with the language, but Alice encourages her to keep trying. They practice some basic phrases, including "God give you good morrow" and "I cannot tell what is 'like me'." The scene ends with Katherine saying "I will kiss your hand, and so I leave you. By this hand, I love thee."

Enter NYM, BARDOLPH, PISTOL, and Boy

BARDOLPH
On, on, on, on, on! to the breach, to the breach!
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NYM
Pray thee, corporal, stay: the knocks are too hot;
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and, for mine own part, I have not a case of lives:
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the humour of it is too hot, that is the very
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plain-song of it.
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PISTOL
The plain-song is most just: for humours do abound:
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Knocks go and come; God's vassals drop and die;
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And sword and shield,
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In bloody field,
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Doth win immortal fame.
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Boy
Would I were in an alehouse in London! I would give
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all my fame for a pot of ale and safety.
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PISTOL
If wishes would prevail with me,
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My purpose should not fail with me,
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But thither would I hie.
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Boy
As duly, but not as truly,
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As bird doth sing on bough.
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Enter FLUELLEN

FLUELLEN
Up to the breach, you dogs! avaunt, you cullions!
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Driving them forward

PISTOL
Be merciful, great duke, to men of mould.
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Abate thy rage, abate thy manly rage,
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Abate thy rage, great duke!
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Good bawcock, bate thy rage; use lenity, sweet chuck!
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NYM
These be good humours! your honour wins bad humours.
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Exeunt all but Boy

Boy
As young as I am, I have observed these three
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swashers. I am boy to them all three: but all they
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three, though they would serve me, could not be man
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to me; for indeed three such antics do not amount to
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a man. For Bardolph, he is white-livered and
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red-faced; by the means whereof a' faces it out, but
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fights not. For Pistol, he hath a killing tongue
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and a quiet sword; by the means whereof a' breaks
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words, and keeps whole weapons. For Nym, he hath
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heard that men of few words are the best men; and
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therefore he scorns to say his prayers, lest a'
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should be thought a coward: but his few bad words
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are matched with as few good deeds; for a' never
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broke any man's head but his own, and that was
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against a post when he was drunk. They will steal
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any thing, and call it purchase. Bardolph stole a
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lute-case, bore it twelve leagues, and sold it for
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three half pence. Nym and Bardolph are sworn
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brothers in filching, and in Calais they stole a
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fire-shovel: I knew by that piece of service the
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men would carry coals. They would have me as
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familiar with men's pockets as their gloves or their
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handkerchers: which makes much against my manhood,
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if I should take from another's pocket to put into
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mine; for it is plain pocketing up of wrongs. I
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must leave them, and seek some better service:
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their villany goes against my weak stomach, and
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therefore I must cast it up.
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Exit

Re-enter FLUELLEN, GOWER following

GOWER
Captain Fluellen, you must come presently to the
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mines; the Duke of Gloucester would speak with you.
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FLUELLEN
To the mines! tell you the duke, it is not so good
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to come to the mines; for, look you, the mines is
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not according to the disciplines of the war: the
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concavities of it is not sufficient; for, look you,
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the athversary, you may discuss unto the duke, look
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you, is digt himself four yard under the
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countermines: by Cheshu, I think a' will plough up
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all, if there is not better directions.
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GOWER
The Duke of Gloucester, to whom the order of the
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siege is given, is altogether directed by an
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Irishman, a very valiant gentleman, i' faith.
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FLUELLEN
It is Captain Macmorris, is it not?
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GOWER
I think it be.
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FLUELLEN
By Cheshu, he is an ass, as in the world: I will
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verify as much in his beard: be has no more
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directions in the true disciplines of the wars, look
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you, of the Roman disciplines, than is a puppy-dog.
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Enter MACMORRIS and Captain JAMY

GOWER
Here a' comes; and the Scots captain, Captain Jamy, with him.
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FLUELLEN
Captain Jamy is a marvellous falourous gentleman,
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that is certain; and of great expedition and
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knowledge in th' aunchient wars, upon my particular
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knowledge of his directions: by Cheshu, he will
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maintain his argument as well as any military man in
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the world, in the disciplines of the pristine wars
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of the Romans.
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JAMY
I say gud-day, Captain Fluellen.
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FLUELLEN
God-den to your worship, good Captain James.
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GOWER
How now, Captain Macmorris! have you quit the
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mines? have the pioneers given o'er?
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MACMORRIS
By Chrish, la! tish ill done: the work ish give
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over, the trompet sound the retreat. By my hand, I
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swear, and my father's soul, the work ish ill done;
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it ish give over: I would have blowed up the town, so
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Chrish save me, la! in an hour: O, tish ill done,
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tish ill done; by my hand, tish ill done!
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FLUELLEN
Captain Macmorris, I beseech you now, will you
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voutsafe me, look you, a few disputations with you,
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as partly touching or concerning the disciplines of
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the war, the Roman wars, in the way of argument,
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look you, and friendly communication; partly to
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satisfy my opinion, and partly for the satisfaction,
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look you, of my mind, as touching the direction of
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the military discipline; that is the point.
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JAMY
It sall be vary gud, gud feith, gud captains bath:
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and I sall quit you with gud leve, as I may pick
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occasion; that sall I, marry.
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MACMORRIS
It is no time to discourse, so Chrish save me: the
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day is hot, and the weather, and the wars, and the
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king, and the dukes: it is no time to discourse. The
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town is beseeched, and the trumpet call us to the
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breach; and we talk, and, be Chrish, do nothing:
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'tis shame for us all: so God sa' me, 'tis shame to
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stand still; it is shame, by my hand: and there is
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throats to be cut, and works to be done; and there
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ish nothing done, so Chrish sa' me, la!
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JAMY
By the mess, ere theise eyes of mine take themselves
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to slomber, ay'll de gud service, or ay'll lig i'
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the grund for it; ay, or go to death; and ay'll pay
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't as valourously as I may, that sall I suerly do,
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that is the breff and the long. Marry, I wad full
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fain hear some question 'tween you tway.
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FLUELLEN
Captain Macmorris, I think, look you, under your
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correction, there is not many of your nation--
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MACMORRIS
Of my nation! What ish my nation? Ish a villain,
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and a bastard, and a knave, and a rascal. What ish
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my nation? Who talks of my nation?
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FLUELLEN
Look you, if you take the matter otherwise than is
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meant, Captain Macmorris, peradventure I shall think
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you do not use me with that affability as in
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discretion you ought to use me, look you: being as
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good a man as yourself, both in the disciplines of
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war, and in the derivation of my birth, and in
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other particularities.
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MACMORRIS
I do not know you so good a man as myself: so
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Chrish save me, I will cut off your head.
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GOWER
Gentlemen both, you will mistake each other.
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JAMY
A! that's a foul fault.
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A parley sounded

GOWER
The town sounds a parley.
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FLUELLEN
Captain Macmorris, when there is more better
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opportunity to be required, look you, I will be so
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bold as to tell you I know the disciplines of war;
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and there is an end.
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Exeunt

SCENE III. The same. Before the gates.

Scene 3 of Act 3 begins with the French King and his advisors discussing the impending battle with the English. The Dauphin, the King's son, is overconfident and dismissive of the English army. The Constable of France, however, warns that underestimating the English would be a grave mistake.

The conversation then turns to negotiations with the English, as the French offer a ransom for the release of certain English prisoners. The King sends a messenger to deliver the offer to the English camp.

Meanwhile, in the English camp, Henry V is rallying his troops before the battle. He delivers a powerful speech, inspiring his soldiers to fight bravely and reminding them of the glory that awaits them if they are victorious. He also makes it clear that he will not accept any ransom offers from the French.

After the messenger arrives with the French offer, Henry V responds with a speech of his own. He rejects the offer, stating that he and his army will fight to the death for England's honor. He also warns the French that they will regret underestimating the English.

The scene ends with both armies preparing for battle, with the French confident in their superiority and the English determined to prove them wrong.

The Governor and some Citizens on the walls; the English forces below. Enter KING HENRY and his train

KING HENRY V
How yet resolves the governor of the town?
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This is the latest parle we will admit;
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Therefore to our best mercy give yourselves;
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Or like to men proud of destruction
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Defy us to our worst: for, as I am a soldier,
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A name that in my thoughts becomes me best,
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If I begin the battery once again,
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I will not leave the half-achieved Harfleur
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Till in her ashes she lie buried.
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The gates of mercy shall be all shut up,
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And the flesh'd soldier, rough and hard of heart,
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In liberty of bloody hand shall range
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With conscience wide as hell, mowing like grass
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Your fresh-fair virgins and your flowering infants.
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What is it then to me, if impious war,
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Array'd in flames like to the prince of fiends,
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Do, with his smirch'd complexion, all fell feats
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Enlink'd to waste and desolation?
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What is't to me, when you yourselves are cause,
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If your pure maidens fall into the hand
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Of hot and forcing violation?
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What rein can hold licentious wickedness
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When down the hill he holds his fierce career?
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We may as bootless spend our vain command
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Upon the enraged soldiers in their spoil
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As send precepts to the leviathan
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To come ashore. Therefore, you men of Harfleur,
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Take pity of your town and of your people,
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Whiles yet my soldiers are in my command;
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Whiles yet the cool and temperate wind of grace
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O'erblows the filthy and contagious clouds
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Of heady murder, spoil and villany.
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If not, why, in a moment look to see
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The blind and bloody soldier with foul hand
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Defile the locks of your shrill-shrieking daughters;
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Your fathers taken by the silver beards,
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And their most reverend heads dash'd to the walls,
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Your naked infants spitted upon pikes,
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Whiles the mad mothers with their howls confused
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Do break the clouds, as did the wives of Jewry
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At Herod's bloody-hunting slaughtermen.
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What say you? will you yield, and this avoid,
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Or, guilty in defence, be thus destroy'd?
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GOVERNOR
Our expectation hath this day an end:
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The Dauphin, whom of succors we entreated,
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Returns us that his powers are yet not ready
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To raise so great a siege. Therefore, great king,
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We yield our town and lives to thy soft mercy.
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Enter our gates; dispose of us and ours;
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For we no longer are defensible.
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KING HENRY V
Open your gates. Come, uncle Exeter,
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Go you and enter Harfleur; there remain,
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And fortify it strongly 'gainst the French:
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Use mercy to them all. For us, dear uncle,
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The winter coming on and sickness growing
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Upon our soldiers, we will retire to Calais.
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To-night in Harfleur we will be your guest;
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To-morrow for the march are we addrest.
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Flourish. The King and his train enter the town

SCENE IV. The FRENCH KING's palace.

Scene 4 of Act 3 features a conversation between the French Duke of Orleans, the Constable of France, and the Dauphin. The three discuss the current state of the war with England and express confidence in their ability to defeat the English army. They criticize the English king, Henry V, for his perceived arrogance and discuss their plan to lure him into a trap. They also mock Henry's attempts to speak French, with the Dauphin declaring that Henry's French sounds like "a horse-neighing." The scene ends with the three French leaders exiting to prepare for battle.

Enter KATHARINE and ALICE

KATHARINE
Alice, tu as ete en Angleterre, et tu parles bien le langage.
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ALICE
Un peu, madame.
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KATHARINE
Je te prie, m'enseignez: il faut que j'apprenne a
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parler. Comment appelez-vous la main en Anglois?
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ALICE
La main? elle est appelee de hand.
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KATHARINE
De hand. Et les doigts?
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ALICE
Les doigts? ma foi, j'oublie les doigts; mais je me
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souviendrai. Les doigts? je pense qu'ils sont
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appeles de fingres; oui, de fingres.
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KATHARINE
La main, de hand; les doigts, de fingres. Je pense
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que je suis le bon ecolier; j'ai gagne deux mots
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d'Anglois vitement. Comment appelez-vous les ongles?
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ALICE
Les ongles? nous les appelons de nails.
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KATHARINE
De nails. Ecoutez; dites-moi, si je parle bien: de
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hand, de fingres, et de nails.
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ALICE
C'est bien dit, madame; il est fort bon Anglois.
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KATHARINE
Dites-moi l'Anglois pour le bras.
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ALICE
De arm, madame.
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KATHARINE
Et le coude?
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ALICE
De elbow.
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KATHARINE
De elbow. Je m'en fais la repetition de tous les
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mots que vous m'avez appris des a present.
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ALICE
Il est trop difficile, madame, comme je pense.
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KATHARINE
Excusez-moi, Alice; ecoutez: de hand, de fingres,
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de nails, de arma, de bilbow.
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ALICE
De elbow, madame.
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KATHARINE
O Seigneur Dieu, je m'en oublie! de elbow. Comment
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appelez-vous le col?
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ALICE
De neck, madame.
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KATHARINE
De nick. Et le menton?
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ALICE
De chin.
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KATHARINE
De sin. Le col, de nick; de menton, de sin.
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ALICE
Oui. Sauf votre honneur, en verite, vous prononcez
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les mots aussi droit que les natifs d'Angleterre.
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KATHARINE
Je ne doute point d'apprendre, par la grace de Dieu,
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et en peu de temps.
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ALICE
N'avez vous pas deja oublie ce que je vous ai enseigne?
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KATHARINE
Non, je reciterai a vous promptement: de hand, de
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fingres, de mails--
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ALICE
De nails, madame.
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KATHARINE
De nails, de arm, de ilbow.
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ALICE
Sauf votre honneur, de elbow.
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KATHARINE
Ainsi dis-je; de elbow, de nick, et de sin. Comment
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appelez-vous le pied et la robe?
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ALICE
De foot, madame; et de coun.
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KATHARINE
De foot et de coun! O Seigneur Dieu! ce sont mots
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de son mauvais, corruptible, gros, et impudique, et
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non pour les dames d'honneur d'user: je ne voudrais
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prononcer ces mots devant les seigneurs de France
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pour tout le monde. Foh! le foot et le coun!
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Neanmoins, je reciterai une autre fois ma lecon
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ensemble: de hand, de fingres, de nails, de arm, de
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elbow, de nick, de sin, de foot, de coun.
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ALICE
Excellent, madame!
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KATHARINE
C'est assez pour une fois: allons-nous a diner.
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Exeunt

SCENE V. The same.

Scene 5 of Act 3 takes place on the battlefield where the English troops are preparing for battle against the French. The English soldiers are nervous and fearful as they know they are outnumbered by the French. Their leader, King Henry V, arrives and delivers an inspiring speech that boosts the morale of his troops.

He reminds them of their previous victories and tells them that they are fighting for a just cause. He also tells them that they should not fear death as it is a natural part of life. He encourages them to fight bravely and not to give up, as victory is within their grasp.

After his speech, King Henry V meets with a soldier named Williams who does not recognize him. They engage in a conversation where Williams tells the king that he is willing to fight anyone who stands in the way of his country. The king agrees and gives Williams his glove, telling him to keep it as a reminder of their encounter.

Later, a messenger arrives with news that the French are ready for battle. The English troops prepare themselves and the battle begins. The English are initially outnumbered, but they fight bravely and manage to gain the upper hand. In the end, the English emerge victorious, with many French soldiers dead and others taken as prisoners.

The scene is a pivotal moment in the play, as it shows King Henry V's leadership skills and his ability to inspire his troops. It also highlights the bravery and determination of the English soldiers, who are willing to fight to the death for their country.

Enter the KING OF FRANCE, the DAUPHIN, the DUKE oF BOURBON, the Constable Of France, and others

KING OF FRANCE
'Tis certain he hath pass'd the river Somme.
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Constable
And if he be not fought withal, my lord,
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Let us not live in France; let us quit all
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And give our vineyards to a barbarous people.
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DAUPHIN
O Dieu vivant! shall a few sprays of us,
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The emptying of our fathers' luxury,
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Our scions, put in wild and savage stock,
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Spirt up so suddenly into the clouds,
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And overlook their grafters?
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BOURBON
Normans, but bastard Normans, Norman bastards!
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Mort de ma vie! if they march along
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Unfought withal, but I will sell my dukedom,
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To buy a slobbery and a dirty farm
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In that nook-shotten isle of Albion.
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Constable
Dieu de batailles! where have they this mettle?
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Is not their climate foggy, raw and dull,
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On whom, as in despite, the sun looks pale,
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Killing their fruit with frowns? Can sodden water,
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A drench for sur-rein'd jades, their barley-broth,
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Decoct their cold blood to such valiant heat?
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And shall our quick blood, spirited with wine,
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Seem frosty? O, for honour of our land,
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Let us not hang like roping icicles
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Upon our houses' thatch, whiles a more frosty people
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Sweat drops of gallant youth in our rich fields!
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Poor we may call them in their native lords.
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DAUPHIN
By faith and honour,
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Our madams mock at us, and plainly say
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Our mettle is bred out and they will give
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Their bodies to the lust of English youth
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To new-store France with bastard warriors.
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BOURBON
They bid us to the English dancing-schools,
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And teach lavoltas high and swift corantos;
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Saying our grace is only in our heels,
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And that we are most lofty runaways.
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KING OF FRANCE
Where is Montjoy the herald? speed him hence:
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Let him greet England with our sharp defiance.
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Up, princes! and, with spirit of honour edged
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More sharper than your swords, hie to the field:
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Charles Delabreth, high constable of France;
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You Dukes of Orleans, Bourbon, and of Berri,
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Alencon, Brabant, Bar, and Burgundy;
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Jaques Chatillon, Rambures, Vaudemont,
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Beaumont, Grandpre, Roussi, and Fauconberg,
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Foix, Lestrale, Bouciqualt, and Charolois;
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High dukes, great princes, barons, lords and knights,
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For your great seats now quit you of great shames.
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Bar Harry England, that sweeps through our land
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With pennons painted in the blood of Harfleur:
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Rush on his host, as doth the melted snow
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Upon the valleys, whose low vassal seat
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The Alps doth spit and void his rheum upon:
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Go down upon him, you have power enough,
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And in a captive chariot into Rouen
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Bring him our prisoner.
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Constable
This becomes the great.
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Sorry am I his numbers are so few,
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His soldiers sick and famish'd in their march,
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For I am sure, when he shall see our army,
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He'll drop his heart into the sink of fear
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And for achievement offer us his ransom.
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KING OF FRANCE
Therefore, lord constable, haste on Montjoy.
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And let him say to England that we send
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To know what willing ransom he will give.
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Prince Dauphin, you shall stay with us in Rouen.
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DAUPHIN
Not so, I do beseech your majesty.
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KING OF FRANCE
Be patient, for you shall remain with us.
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Now forth, lord constable and princes all,
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And quickly bring us word of England's fall.
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Exeunt

SCENE VI. The English camp in Picardy.

In Scene 6 of Act 3, the English army is preparing for battle against the French at the battle of Agincourt. The soldiers are nervous and afraid, and some are even considering deserting. However, King Henry V gives a rousing speech to his troops, urging them to fight with honor and courage. He tells them that they are all brothers in arms and that they must stand together and fight for England.

Henry reminds his soldiers of the glory that awaits them if they win the battle and the shame that will follow if they fail. He also tells them that they have God on their side and that they should trust in Him to guide them to victory. His speech inspires the soldiers, and they pledge their loyalty to him and to their country.

After the speech, the English army prepares for battle. They are outnumbered by the French, but they are determined to fight to the death. The battle is brutal and bloody, with both sides suffering heavy casualties. However, in the end, the English emerge victorious, thanks to their bravery and determination.

Scene 6 of Act 3 is a powerful moment in the play, as it shows the strength and courage of the English army and their leader, King Henry V. The speech he gives is one of the most famous in all of literature, and it has inspired countless people over the centuries to fight for what they believe in, no matter the odds.

Enter GOWER and FLUELLEN, meeting

GOWER
How now, Captain Fluellen! come you from the bridge?
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FLUELLEN
I assure you, there is very excellent services
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committed at the bridge.
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GOWER
Is the Duke of Exeter safe?
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FLUELLEN
The Duke of Exeter is as magnanimous as Agamemnon;
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and a man that I love and honour with my soul, and my
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heart, and my duty, and my life, and my living, and
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my uttermost power: he is not-God be praised and
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blessed!--any hurt in the world; but keeps the
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bridge most valiantly, with excellent discipline.
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There is an aunchient lieutenant there at the
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pridge, I think in my very conscience he is as
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valiant a man as Mark Antony; and he is a man of no
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estimation in the world; but did see him do as
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gallant service.
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GOWER
What do you call him?
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FLUELLEN
He is called Aunchient Pistol.
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GOWER
I know him not.
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Enter PISTOL

FLUELLEN
Here is the man.
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PISTOL
Captain, I thee beseech to do me favours:
Link: 3.6.20
The Duke of Exeter doth love thee well.
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FLUELLEN
Ay, I praise God; and I have merited some love at
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his hands.
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PISTOL
Bardolph, a soldier, firm and sound of heart,
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And of buxom valour, hath, by cruel fate,
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And giddy Fortune's furious fickle wheel,
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That goddess blind,
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That stands upon the rolling restless stone--
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FLUELLEN
By your patience, Aunchient Pistol. Fortune is
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painted blind, with a muffler afore her eyes, to
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signify to you that Fortune is blind; and she is
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painted also with a wheel, to signify to you, which
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is the moral of it, that she is turning, and
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inconstant, and mutability, and variation: and her
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foot, look you, is fixed upon a spherical stone,
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which rolls, and rolls, and rolls: in good truth,
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the poet makes a most excellent description of it:
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Fortune is an excellent moral.
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PISTOL
Fortune is Bardolph's foe, and frowns on him;
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For he hath stolen a pax, and hanged must a' be:
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A damned death!
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Let gallows gape for dog; let man go free
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And let not hemp his wind-pipe suffocate:
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But Exeter hath given the doom of death
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For pax of little price.
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Therefore, go speak: the duke will hear thy voice:
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And let not Bardolph's vital thread be cut
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With edge of penny cord and vile reproach:
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Speak, captain, for his life, and I will thee requite.
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FLUELLEN
Aunchient Pistol, I do partly understand your meaning.
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PISTOL
Why then, rejoice therefore.
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FLUELLEN
Certainly, aunchient, it is not a thing to rejoice
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at: for if, look you, he were my brother, I would
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desire the duke to use his good pleasure, and put
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him to execution; for discipline ought to be used.
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PISTOL
Die and be damn'd! and figo for thy friendship!
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FLUELLEN
It is well.
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PISTOL
The fig of Spain!
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Exit

FLUELLEN
Very good.
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GOWER
Why, this is an arrant counterfeit rascal; I
Link: 3.6.60
remember him now; a bawd, a cutpurse.
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FLUELLEN
I'll assure you, a' uttered as brave words at the
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bridge as you shall see in a summer's day. But it
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is very well; what he has spoke to me, that is well,
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I warrant you, when time is serve.
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GOWER
Why, 'tis a gull, a fool, a rogue, that now and then
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goes to the wars, to grace himself at his return
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into London under the form of a soldier. And such
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fellows are perfect in the great commanders' names:
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and they will learn you by rote where services were
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done; at such and such a sconce, at such a breach,
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at such a convoy; who came off bravely, who was
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shot, who disgraced, what terms the enemy stood on;
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and this they con perfectly in the phrase of war,
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which they trick up with new-tuned oaths: and what
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a beard of the general's cut and a horrid suit of
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the camp will do among foaming bottles and
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ale-washed wits, is wonderful to be thought on. But
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you must learn to know such slanders of the age, or
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else you may be marvellously mistook.
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FLUELLEN
I tell you what, Captain Gower; I do perceive he is
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not the man that he would gladly make show to the
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world he is: if I find a hole in his coat, I will
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tell him my mind.
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Hark you, the king is coming, and I must speak with
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him from the pridge.
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God pless your majesty!
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KING HENRY V
How now, Fluellen! camest thou from the bridge?
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FLUELLEN
Ay, so please your majesty. The Duke of Exeter has
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very gallantly maintained the pridge: the French is
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gone off, look you; and there is gallant and most
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prave passages; marry, th' athversary was have
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possession of the pridge; but he is enforced to
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retire, and the Duke of Exeter is master of the
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pridge: I can tell your majesty, the duke is a
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prave man.
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KING HENRY V
What men have you lost, Fluellen?
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FLUELLEN
The perdition of th' athversary hath been very
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great, reasonable great: marry, for my part, I
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think the duke hath lost never a man, but one that
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is like to be executed for robbing a church, one
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Bardolph, if your majesty know the man: his face is
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all bubukles, and whelks, and knobs, and flames o'
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fire: and his lips blows at his nose, and it is like
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a coal of fire, sometimes plue and sometimes red;
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but his nose is executed and his fire's out.
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KING HENRY V
We would have all such offenders so cut off: and we
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give express charge, that in our marches through the
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country, there be nothing compelled from the
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villages, nothing taken but paid for, none of the
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French upbraided or abused in disdainful language;
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for when lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom, the
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gentler gamester is the soonest winner.
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Tucket. Enter MONTJOY

MONTJOY
You know me by my habit.
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KING HENRY V
Well then I know thee: what shall I know of thee?
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MONTJOY
My master's mind.
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KING HENRY V
Unfold it.
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MONTJOY
Thus says my king: Say thou to Harry of England:
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Though we seemed dead, we did but sleep: advantage
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is a better soldier than rashness. Tell him we
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could have rebuked him at Harfleur, but that we
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thought not good to bruise an injury till it were
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full ripe: now we speak upon our cue, and our voice
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is imperial: England shall repent his folly, see
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his weakness, and admire our sufferance. Bid him
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therefore consider of his ransom; which must
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proportion the losses we have borne, the subjects we
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have lost, the disgrace we have digested; which in
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weight to re-answer, his pettiness would bow under.
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For our losses, his exchequer is too poor; for the
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effusion of our blood, the muster of his kingdom too
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faint a number; and for our disgrace, his own
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person, kneeling at our feet, but a weak and
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worthless satisfaction. To this add defiance: and
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tell him, for conclusion, he hath betrayed his
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followers, whose condemnation is pronounced. So far
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my king and master; so much my office.
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KING HENRY V
What is thy name? I know thy quality.
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MONTJOY
Montjoy.
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KING HENRY V
Thou dost thy office fairly. Turn thee back.
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And tell thy king I do not seek him now;
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But could be willing to march on to Calais
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Without impeachment: for, to say the sooth,
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Though 'tis no wisdom to confess so much
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Unto an enemy of craft and vantage,
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My people are with sickness much enfeebled,
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My numbers lessened, and those few I have
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Almost no better than so many French;
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Who when they were in health, I tell thee, herald,
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I thought upon one pair of English legs
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Did march three Frenchmen. Yet, forgive me, God,
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That I do brag thus! This your air of France
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Hath blown that vice in me: I must repent.
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Go therefore, tell thy master here I am;
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My ransom is this frail and worthless trunk,
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My army but a weak and sickly guard;
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Yet, God before, tell him we will come on,
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Though France himself and such another neighbour
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Stand in our way. There's for thy labour, Montjoy.
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Go bid thy master well advise himself:
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If we may pass, we will; if we be hinder'd,
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We shall your tawny ground with your red blood
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Discolour: and so Montjoy, fare you well.
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The sum of all our answer is but this:
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We would not seek a battle, as we are;
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Nor, as we are, we say we will not shun it:
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So tell your master.
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MONTJOY
I shall deliver so. Thanks to your highness.
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Exit

GLOUCESTER
I hope they will not come upon us now.
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KING HENRY V
We are in God's hand, brother, not in theirs.
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March to the bridge; it now draws toward night:
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Beyond the river we'll encamp ourselves,
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And on to-morrow, bid them march away.
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Exeunt

SCENE VII. The French camp, near Agincourt:

In Scene 7 of Act 3, a group of English soldiers, led by Fluellen, encounter a group of French soldiers. The French soldiers insult the English soldiers, and a fight breaks out. Fluellen intervenes and challenges one of the French soldiers to a one-on-one fight to defend the honor of the English army.

Meanwhile, King Henry V is disguised as a common soldier and is speaking with some of his troops. He overhears the commotion and goes to investigate. When he arrives, he sees Fluellen and the French soldier fighting. Fluellen wins the fight, and the French soldier asks for mercy. Fluellen grants his request, and the two sides begin to talk.

The French soldier reveals that the English army is greatly outnumbered, and he suggests that they surrender. However, Fluellen refuses to consider surrender and insists that they will fight to the end. King Henry V reveals his true identity and tells the soldiers that they will not surrender. He gives a rousing speech, inspiring his troops to fight with all their might and reminding them of their duty to their country.

The scene ends with the English soldiers preparing for battle, determined to defend their honor and their country.

Enter the Constable of France, the LORD RAMBURES, ORLEANS, DAUPHIN, with others

Constable
Tut! I have the best armour of the world. Would it were day!
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ORLEANS
You have an excellent armour; but let my horse have his due.
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Constable
It is the best horse of Europe.
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ORLEANS
Will it never be morning?
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DAUPHIN
My lord of Orleans, and my lord high constable, you
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talk of horse and armour?
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ORLEANS
You are as well provided of both as any prince in the world.
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DAUPHIN
What a long night is this! I will not change my
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horse with any that treads but on four pasterns.
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Ca, ha! he bounds from the earth, as if his
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entrails were hairs; le cheval volant, the Pegasus,
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chez les narines de feu! When I bestride him, I
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soar, I am a hawk: he trots the air; the earth
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sings when he touches it; the basest horn of his
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hoof is more musical than the pipe of Hermes.
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ORLEANS
He's of the colour of the nutmeg.
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DAUPHIN
And of the heat of the ginger. It is a beast for
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Perseus: he is pure air and fire; and the dull
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elements of earth and water never appear in him, but
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only in Patient stillness while his rider mounts
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him: he is indeed a horse; and all other jades you
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may call beasts.
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Constable
Indeed, my lord, it is a most absolute and excellent horse.
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DAUPHIN
It is the prince of palfreys; his neigh is like the
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bidding of a monarch and his countenance enforces homage.
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ORLEANS
No more, cousin.
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DAUPHIN
Nay, the man hath no wit that cannot, from the
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rising of the lark to the lodging of the lamb, vary
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deserved praise on my palfrey: it is a theme as
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fluent as the sea: turn the sands into eloquent
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tongues, and my horse is argument for them all:
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'tis a subject for a sovereign to reason on, and for
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a sovereign's sovereign to ride on; and for the
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world, familiar to us and unknown to lay apart
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their particular functions and wonder at him. I
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once writ a sonnet in his praise and began thus:
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'Wonder of nature,'--
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ORLEANS
I have heard a sonnet begin so to one's mistress.
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DAUPHIN
Then did they imitate that which I composed to my
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courser, for my horse is my mistress.
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ORLEANS
Your mistress bears well.
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DAUPHIN
Me well; which is the prescript praise and
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perfection of a good and particular mistress.
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Constable
Nay, for methought yesterday your mistress shrewdly
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shook your back.
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DAUPHIN
So perhaps did yours.
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Constable
Mine was not bridled.
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DAUPHIN
O then belike she was old and gentle; and you rode,
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like a kern of Ireland, your French hose off, and in
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your straight strossers.
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Constable
You have good judgment in horsemanship.
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DAUPHIN
Be warned by me, then: they that ride so and ride
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not warily, fall into foul bogs. I had rather have
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my horse to my mistress.
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Constable
I had as lief have my mistress a jade.
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DAUPHIN
I tell thee, constable, my mistress wears his own hair.
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Constable
I could make as true a boast as that, if I had a sow
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to my mistress.
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DAUPHIN
'Le chien est retourne a son propre vomissement, et
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la truie lavee au bourbier;' thou makest use of any thing.
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Constable
Yet do I not use my horse for my mistress, or any
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such proverb so little kin to the purpose.
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RAMBURES
My lord constable, the armour that I saw in your tent
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to-night, are those stars or suns upon it?
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Constable
Stars, my lord.
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DAUPHIN
Some of them will fall to-morrow, I hope.
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Constable
And yet my sky shall not want.
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DAUPHIN
That may be, for you bear a many superfluously, and
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'twere more honour some were away.
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Constable
Even as your horse bears your praises; who would
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trot as well, were some of your brags dismounted.
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DAUPHIN
Would I were able to load him with his desert! Will
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it never be day? I will trot to-morrow a mile, and
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my way shall be paved with English faces.
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Constable
I will not say so, for fear I should be faced out of
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my way: but I would it were morning; for I would
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fain be about the ears of the English.
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RAMBURES
Who will go to hazard with me for twenty prisoners?
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Constable
You must first go yourself to hazard, ere you have them.
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DAUPHIN
'Tis midnight; I'll go arm myself.
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Exit

ORLEANS
The Dauphin longs for morning.
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RAMBURES
He longs to eat the English.
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Constable
I think he will eat all he kills.
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ORLEANS
By the white hand of my lady, he's a gallant prince.
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Constable
Swear by her foot, that she may tread out the oath.
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ORLEANS
He is simply the most active gentleman of France.
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Constable
Doing is activity; and he will still be doing.
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ORLEANS
He never did harm, that I heard of.
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Constable
Nor will do none to-morrow: he will keep that good name still.
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ORLEANS
I know him to be valiant.
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Constable
I was told that by one that knows him better than
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ORLEANS
What's he?
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Constable
Marry, he told me so himself; and he said he cared
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not who knew it
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ORLEANS
He needs not; it is no hidden virtue in him.
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Constable
By my faith, sir, but it is; never any body saw it
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but his lackey: 'tis a hooded valour; and when it
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appears, it will bate.
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ORLEANS
Ill will never said well.
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Constable
I will cap that proverb with 'There is flattery in friendship.'
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ORLEANS
And I will take up that with 'Give the devil his due.'
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Constable
Well placed: there stands your friend for the
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devil: have at the very eye of that proverb with 'A
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pox of the devil.'
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ORLEANS
You are the better at proverbs, by how much 'A
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fool's bolt is soon shot.'
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Constable
You have shot over.
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ORLEANS
'Tis not the first time you were overshot.
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Enter a Messenger

Messenger
My lord high constable, the English lie within
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fifteen hundred paces of your tents.
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Constable
Who hath measured the ground?
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Messenger
The Lord Grandpre.
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Constable
A valiant and most expert gentleman. Would it were
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day! Alas, poor Harry of England! he longs not for
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the dawning as we do.
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ORLEANS
What a wretched and peevish fellow is this king of
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England, to mope with his fat-brained followers so
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far out of his knowledge!
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Constable
If the English had any apprehension, they would run away.
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ORLEANS
That they lack; for if their heads had any
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intellectual armour, they could never wear such heavy
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head-pieces.
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RAMBURES
That island of England breeds very valiant
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creatures; their mastiffs are of unmatchable courage.
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ORLEANS
Foolish curs, that run winking into the mouth of a
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Russian bear and have their heads crushed like
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rotten apples! You may as well say, that's a
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valiant flea that dare eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.
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Constable
Just, just; and the men do sympathize with the
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mastiffs in robustious and rough coming on, leaving
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their wits with their wives: and then give them
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great meals of beef and iron and steel, they will
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eat like wolves and fight like devils.
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ORLEANS
Ay, but these English are shrewdly out of beef.
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Constable
Then shall we find to-morrow they have only stomachs
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to eat and none to fight. Now is it time to arm:
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come, shall we about it?
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ORLEANS
It is now two o'clock: but, let me see, by ten
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We shall have each a hundred Englishmen.
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Exeunt

Act IV

Act 4 of Henry V is a pivotal moment in the play that sets the stage for the final battle between the French and the English. In this act, King Henry V is faced with the harsh reality of war and must make difficult decisions that will impact the outcome of the conflict.

The act opens with the English army preparing for battle. King Henry V delivers a rousing speech to his troops, inspiring them to fight with courage and conviction. However, the king is also plagued with doubt and guilt over the lives that will be lost in the upcoming battle.

Meanwhile, on the French side, the Dauphin is confident in his army's ability to defeat the English. He sends a message to King Henry V, taunting him and challenging him to a one-on-one battle. The move is seen as arrogant by both the French and English soldiers and serves to further heighten tensions on the battlefield.

As the two armies prepare for battle, King Henry V speaks with his advisors and comes to the realization that he may not emerge victorious. He reflects on the heavy burden of leadership and the sacrifices that must be made in order to achieve victory.

The act ends with the French and English armies facing off on the battlefield. King Henry V delivers a final speech to his troops, urging them to fight with honor and reminding them of the stakes of the conflict. The stage is set for an epic battle that will determine the fate of both nations.

PROLOGUE.

Enter Chorus

Chorus
Now entertain conjecture of a time
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When creeping murmur and the poring dark
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Fills the wide vessel of the universe.
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From camp to camp through the foul womb of night
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The hum of either army stilly sounds,
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That the fixed sentinels almost receive
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The secret whispers of each other's watch:
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Fire answers fire, and through their paly flames
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Each battle sees the other's umber'd face;
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Steed threatens steed, in high and boastful neighs
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Piercing the night's dull ear, and from the tents
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The armourers, accomplishing the knights,
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With busy hammers closing rivets up,
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Give dreadful note of preparation:
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The country cocks do crow, the clocks do toll,
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And the third hour of drowsy morning name.
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Proud of their numbers and secure in soul,
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The confident and over-lusty French
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Do the low-rated English play at dice;
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And chide the cripple tardy-gaited night
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Who, like a foul and ugly witch, doth limp
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So tediously away. The poor condemned English,
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Like sacrifices, by their watchful fires
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Sit patiently and inly ruminate
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The morning's danger, and their gesture sad
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Investing lank-lean; cheeks and war-worn coats
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Presenteth them unto the gazing moon
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So many horrid ghosts. O now, who will behold
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The royal captain of this ruin'd band
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Walking from watch to watch, from tent to tent,
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Let him cry 'Praise and glory on his head!'
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For forth he goes and visits all his host.
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Bids them good morrow with a modest smile
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And calls them brothers, friends and countrymen.
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Upon his royal face there is no note
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How dread an army hath enrounded him;
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Nor doth he dedicate one jot of colour
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Unto the weary and all-watched night,
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But freshly looks and over-bears attaint
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With cheerful semblance and sweet majesty;
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That every wretch, pining and pale before,
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Beholding him, plucks comfort from his looks:
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A largess universal like the sun
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His liberal eye doth give to every one,
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Thawing cold fear, that mean and gentle all,
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Behold, as may unworthiness define,
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A little touch of Harry in the night.
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And so our scene must to the battle fly;
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Where--O for pity!--we shall much disgrace
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With four or five most vile and ragged foils,
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Right ill-disposed in brawl ridiculous,
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The name of Agincourt. Yet sit and see,
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Minding true things by what their mockeries be.
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Exit

SCENE I. The English camp at Agincourt.

Scene 1 of Act 4 takes place in a French royal palace, where the French king and his courtiers are discussing the ongoing war with England. The king is worried about the strength of the English army, which is currently besieging the city of Harfleur. He asks his advisors for their opinions on how to defeat the English.

One of the courtiers suggests that the French should wait until winter, when the English will be weakened by the cold and lack of supplies. Another suggests that they should attack the English by sea, but the king points out that the English navy is too powerful. A third advisor suggests that they should negotiate a peace treaty with the English, but the Dauphin (the king's son) is against this idea.

At this point, a messenger arrives with news that the English are preparing to attack the French army. The king orders his men to prepare for battle and sends the Dauphin to lead their troops. The Dauphin is confident of victory, mocking the English and boasting of his own prowess in battle.

The scene ends with the French king expressing his doubts about the outcome of the war. He is worried that the English may be too strong for them to defeat, and that the French people will suffer if they continue to fight.

Enter KING HENRY, BEDFORD, and GLOUCESTER

KING HENRY V
Gloucester, 'tis true that we are in great danger;
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The greater therefore should our courage be.
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Good morrow, brother Bedford. God Almighty!
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There is some soul of goodness in things evil,
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Would men observingly distil it out.
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For our bad neighbour makes us early stirrers,
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Which is both healthful and good husbandry:
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Besides, they are our outward consciences,
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And preachers to us all, admonishing
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That we should dress us fairly for our end.
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Thus may we gather honey from the weed,
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And make a moral of the devil himself.
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Good morrow, old Sir Thomas Erpingham:
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A good soft pillow for that good white head
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Were better than a churlish turf of France.
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ERPINGHAM
Not so, my liege: this lodging likes me better,
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Since I may say 'Now lie I like a king.'
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KING HENRY V
'Tis good for men to love their present pains
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Upon example; so the spirit is eased:
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And when the mind is quicken'd, out of doubt,
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The organs, though defunct and dead before,
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Break up their drowsy grave and newly move,
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With casted slough and fresh legerity.
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Lend me thy cloak, Sir Thomas. Brothers both,
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Commend me to the princes in our camp;
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Do my good morrow to them, and anon
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Desire them an to my pavilion.
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GLOUCESTER
We shall, my liege.
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ERPINGHAM
Shall I attend your grace?
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KING HENRY V
No, my good knight;
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Go with my brothers to my lords of England:
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I and my bosom must debate awhile,
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And then I would no other company.
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ERPINGHAM
The Lord in heaven bless thee, noble Harry!
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Exeunt all but KING HENRY

KING HENRY V
God-a-mercy, old heart! thou speak'st cheerfully.
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Enter PISTOL

PISTOL
Qui va la?
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KING HENRY V
A friend.
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PISTOL
Discuss unto me; art thou officer?
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Or art thou base, common and popular?
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KING HENRY V
I am a gentleman of a company.
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PISTOL
Trail'st thou the puissant pike?
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KING HENRY V
Even so. What are you?
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PISTOL
As good a gentleman as the emperor.
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KING HENRY V
Then you are a better than the king.
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PISTOL
The king's a bawcock, and a heart of gold,
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A lad of life, an imp of fame;
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Of parents good, of fist most valiant.
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I kiss his dirty shoe, and from heart-string
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I love the lovely bully. What is thy name?
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KING HENRY V
Harry le Roy.
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PISTOL
Le Roy! a Cornish name: art thou of Cornish crew?
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KING HENRY V
No, I am a Welshman.
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PISTOL
Know'st thou Fluellen?
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KING HENRY V

PISTOL
Tell him, I'll knock his leek about his pate
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Upon Saint Davy's day.
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KING HENRY V
Do not you wear your dagger in your cap that day,
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lest he knock that about yours.
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PISTOL
Art thou his friend?
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KING HENRY V
And his kinsman too.
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PISTOL
The figo for thee, then!
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KING HENRY V
I thank you: God be with you!
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PISTOL
My name is Pistol call'd.
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Exit

KING HENRY V
It sorts well with your fierceness.
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Enter FLUELLEN and GOWER

GOWER
Captain Fluellen!
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FLUELLEN
So! in the name of Jesu Christ, speak lower. It is
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the greatest admiration of the universal world, when
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the true and aunchient prerogatifes and laws of the
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wars is not kept: if you would take the pains but to
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examine the wars of Pompey the Great, you shall
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find, I warrant you, that there is no tiddle toddle
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nor pibble pabble in Pompey's camp; I warrant you,
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you shall find the ceremonies of the wars, and the
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cares of it, and the forms of it, and the sobriety
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of it, and the modesty of it, to be otherwise.
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GOWER
Why, the enemy is loud; you hear him all night.
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FLUELLEN
If the enemy is an ass and a fool and a prating
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coxcomb, is it meet, think you, that we should also,
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look you, be an ass and a fool and a prating
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coxcomb? in your own conscience, now?
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GOWER
I will speak lower.
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FLUELLEN
I pray you and beseech you that you will.
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Exeunt GOWER and FLUELLEN

KING HENRY V
Though it appear a little out of fashion,
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There is much care and valour in this Welshman.
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Enter three soldiers, JOHN BATES, ALEXANDER COURT, and MICHAEL WILLIAMS

COURT
Brother John Bates, is not that the morning which
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breaks yonder?
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BATES
I think it be: but we have no great cause to desire
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the approach of day.
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WILLIAMS
We see yonder the beginning of the day, but I think
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we shall never see the end of it. Who goes there?
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KING HENRY V
A friend.
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WILLIAMS
Under what captain serve you?
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KING HENRY V
Under Sir Thomas Erpingham.
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WILLIAMS
A good old commander and a most kind gentleman: I
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pray you, what thinks he of our estate?
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KING HENRY V
Even as men wrecked upon a sand, that look to be
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washed off the next tide.
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BATES
He hath not told his thought to the king?
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KING HENRY V
No; nor it is not meet he should. For, though I
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speak it to you, I think the king is but a man, as I
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am: the violet smells to him as it doth to me: the
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element shows to him as it doth to me; all his
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senses have but human conditions: his ceremonies
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laid by, in his nakedness he appears but a man; and
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though his affections are higher mounted than ours,
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yet, when they stoop, they stoop with the like
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wing. Therefore when he sees reason of fears, as we
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do, his fears, out of doubt, be of the same relish
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as ours are: yet, in reason, no man should possess
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him with any appearance of fear, lest he, by showing
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it, should dishearten his army.
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BATES
He may show what outward courage he will; but I
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believe, as cold a night as 'tis, he could wish
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himself in Thames up to the neck; and so I would he
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were, and I by him, at all adventures, so we were quit here.
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KING HENRY V
By my troth, I will speak my conscience of the king:
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I think he would not wish himself any where but
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where he is.
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BATES
Then I would he were here alone; so should he be
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sure to be ransomed, and a many poor men's lives saved.
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KING HENRY V
I dare say you love him not so ill, to wish him here
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alone, howsoever you speak this to feel other men's
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minds: methinks I could not die any where so
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contented as in the king's company; his cause being
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just and his quarrel honourable.
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WILLIAMS
That's more than we know.
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BATES
Ay, or more than we should seek after; for we know
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enough, if we know we are the kings subjects: if
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his cause be wrong, our obedience to the king wipes
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the crime of it out of us.
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WILLIAMS
But if the cause be not good, the king himself hath
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a heavy reckoning to make, when all those legs and
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arms and heads, chopped off in battle, shall join
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together at the latter day and cry all 'We died at
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such a place;' some swearing, some crying for a
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surgeon, some upon their wives left poor behind
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them, some upon the debts they owe, some upon their
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children rawly left. I am afeard there are few die
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well that die in a battle; for how can they
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charitably dispose of any thing, when blood is their
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argument? Now, if these men do not die well, it
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will be a black matter for the king that led them to
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it; whom to disobey were against all proportion of
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subjection.
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KING HENRY V
So, if a son that is by his father sent about
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merchandise do sinfully miscarry upon the sea, the
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imputation of his wickedness by your rule, should be
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imposed upon his father that sent him: or if a
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servant, under his master's command transporting a
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sum of money, be assailed by robbers and die in
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many irreconciled iniquities, you may call the
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business of the master the author of the servant's
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damnation: but this is not so: the king is not
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bound to answer the particular endings of his
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soldiers, the father of his son, nor the master of
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his servant; for they purpose not their death, when
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they purpose their services. Besides, there is no
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king, be his cause never so spotless, if it come to
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the arbitrement of swords, can try it out with all
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unspotted soldiers: some peradventure have on them
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the guilt of premeditated and contrived murder;
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some, of beguiling virgins with the broken seals of
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perjury; some, making the wars their bulwark, that
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have before gored the gentle bosom of peace with
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pillage and robbery. Now, if these men have
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defeated the law and outrun native punishment,
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though they can outstrip men, they have no wings to
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fly from God: war is his beadle, war is vengeance;
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so that here men are punished for before-breach of
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the king's laws in now the king's quarrel: where
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they feared the death, they have borne life away;
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and where they would be safe, they perish: then if
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they die unprovided, no more is the king guilty of
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their damnation than he was before guilty of those
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impieties for the which they are now visited. Every
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subject's duty is the king's; but every subject's
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soul is his own. Therefore should every soldier in
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the wars do as every sick man in his bed, wash every
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mote out of his conscience: and dying so, death
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is to him advantage; or not dying, the time was
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blessedly lost wherein such preparation was gained:
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and in him that escapes, it were not sin to think
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that, making God so free an offer, He let him
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outlive that day to see His greatness and to teach
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others how they should prepare.
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WILLIAMS
'Tis certain, every man that dies ill, the ill upon
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his own head, the king is not to answer it.
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BATES
But I do not desire he should answer for me; and
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yet I determine to fight lustily for him.
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KING HENRY V
I myself heard the king say he would not be ransomed.
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WILLIAMS
Ay, he said so, to make us fight cheerfully: but
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when our throats are cut, he may be ransomed, and we
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ne'er the wiser.
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KING HENRY V
If I live to see it, I will never trust his word after.
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WILLIAMS
You pay him then. That's a perilous shot out of an
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elder-gun, that a poor and private displeasure can
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do against a monarch! you may as well go about to
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turn the sun to ice with fanning in his face with a
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peacock's feather. You'll never trust his word
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after! come, 'tis a foolish saying.
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KING HENRY V
Your reproof is something too round: I should be
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angry with you, if the time were convenient.
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WILLIAMS
Let it be a quarrel between us, if you live.
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KING HENRY V
I embrace it.
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WILLIAMS
How shall I know thee again?
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KING HENRY V
Give me any gage of thine, and I will wear it in my
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bonnet: then, if ever thou darest acknowledge it, I
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will make it my quarrel.
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WILLIAMS
Here's my glove: give me another of thine.
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KING HENRY V

WILLIAMS
This will I also wear in my cap: if ever thou come
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to me and say, after to-morrow, 'This is my glove,'
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by this hand, I will take thee a box on the ear.
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KING HENRY V
If ever I live to see it, I will challenge it.
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WILLIAMS
Thou darest as well be hanged.
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KING HENRY V
Well. I will do it, though I take thee in the
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king's company.
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WILLIAMS
Keep thy word: fare thee well.
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BATES
Be friends, you English fools, be friends: we have
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French quarrels enow, if you could tell how to reckon.
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KING HENRY V
Indeed, the French may lay twenty French crowns to
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one, they will beat us; for they bear them on their
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shoulders: but it is no English treason to cut
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French crowns, and to-morrow the king himself will
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be a clipper.
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Upon the king! let us our lives, our souls,
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Our debts, our careful wives,
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Our children and our sins lay on the king!
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We must bear all. O hard condition,
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Twin-born with greatness, subject to the breath
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Of every fool, whose sense no more can feel
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But his own wringing! What infinite heart's-ease
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Must kings neglect, that private men enjoy!
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And what have kings, that privates have not too,
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Save ceremony, save general ceremony?
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And what art thou, thou idle ceremony?
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What kind of god art thou, that suffer'st more
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Of mortal griefs than do thy worshippers?
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What are thy rents? what are thy comings in?
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O ceremony, show me but thy worth!
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What is thy soul of adoration?
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Art thou aught else but place, degree and form,
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Creating awe and fear in other men?
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Wherein thou art less happy being fear'd
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Than they in fearing.
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What drink'st thou oft, instead of homage sweet,
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But poison'd flattery? O, be sick, great greatness,
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And bid thy ceremony give thee cure!
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Think'st thou the fiery fever will go out
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With titles blown from adulation?
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Will it give place to flexure and low bending?
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Canst thou, when thou command'st the beggar's knee,
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Command the health of it? No, thou proud dream,
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That play'st so subtly with a king's repose;
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I am a king that find thee, and I know
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'Tis not the balm, the sceptre and the ball,
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The sword, the mace, the crown imperial,
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The intertissued robe of gold and pearl,
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The farced title running 'fore the king,
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The throne he sits on, nor the tide of pomp
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That beats upon the high shore of this world,
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No, not all these, thrice-gorgeous ceremony,
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Not all these, laid in bed majestical,
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Can sleep so soundly as the wretched slave,
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Who with a body fill'd and vacant mind
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Gets him to rest, cramm'd with distressful bread;
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Never sees horrid night, the child of hell,
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But, like a lackey, from the rise to set
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Sweats in the eye of Phoebus and all night
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Sleeps in Elysium; next day after dawn,
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Doth rise and help Hyperion to his horse,
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And follows so the ever-running year,
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With profitable labour, to his grave:
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And, but for ceremony, such a wretch,
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Winding up days with toil and nights with sleep,
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Had the fore-hand and vantage of a king.
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The slave, a member of the country's peace,
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Enjoys it; but in gross brain little wots
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What watch the king keeps to maintain the peace,
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Whose hours the peasant best advantages.
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Enter ERPINGHAM

ERPINGHAM
My lord, your nobles, jealous of your absence,
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Seek through your camp to find you.
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KING HENRY V
Good old knight,
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Collect them all together at my tent:
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I'll be before thee.
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ERPINGHAM
I shall do't, my lord.
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Exit

KING HENRY V
O God of battles! steel my soldiers' hearts;
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Possess them not with fear; take from them now
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The sense of reckoning, if the opposed numbers
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Pluck their hearts from them. Not to-day, O Lord,
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O, not to-day, think not upon the fault
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My father made in compassing the crown!
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I Richard's body have interred anew;
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And on it have bestow'd more contrite tears
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Than from it issued forced drops of blood:
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Five hundred poor I have in yearly pay,
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Who twice a-day their wither'd hands hold up
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Toward heaven, to pardon blood; and I have built
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Two chantries, where the sad and solemn priests
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Sing still for Richard's soul. More will I do;
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Though all that I can do is nothing worth,
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Since that my penitence comes after all,
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Imploring pardon.
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Enter GLOUCESTER

GLOUCESTER
My liege!
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KING HENRY V
My brother Gloucester's voice? Ay;
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I know thy errand, I will go with thee:
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The day, my friends and all things stay for me.
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Exeunt

SCENE II. The French camp.

Scene 2 of Act 4 takes place on the battlefield of Agincourt, where the English and French armies are about to engage in battle. The French Herald enters the stage and demands that the English surrender, but the Duke of York, who is in charge of the English forces, refuses.

The Herald then offers a challenge to any Englishman who dares to fight one of the French champions. King Henry V, who is disguised as a common soldier, accepts the challenge and chooses to fight the Constable of France.

The two men meet on the battlefield and engage in a fierce battle. Despite being outnumbered and outmatched, King Henry V manages to defeat the Constable and impresses both his own soldiers and the French. The French Herald is stunned by the outcome and declares that he has never seen such a brave and valiant warrior.

After the battle, King Henry V reveals his true identity to his men and celebrates their victory. He also orders mercy for the wounded French soldiers and asks his men to treat them with respect and kindness. The French King, who has been captured by the English, is brought before King Henry V and they engage in a tense conversation.

The scene ends with King Henry V offering the French King a treaty, which includes him marrying the French Princess, and the two men agreeing to end the war and live in peace.

Enter the DAUPHIN, ORLEANS, RAMBURES, and others

ORLEANS
The sun doth gild our armour; up, my lords!
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DAUPHIN
Montez A cheval! My horse! varlet! laquais! ha!
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ORLEANS
O brave spirit!
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DAUPHIN
Via! les eaux et la terre.
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ORLEANS
Rien puis? L'air et la feu.
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DAUPHIN
Ciel, cousin Orleans.
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Now, my lord constable!
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Constable
Hark, how our steeds for present service neigh!
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DAUPHIN
Mount them, and make incision in their hides,
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That their hot blood may spin in English eyes,
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And dout them with superfluous courage, ha!
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RAMBURES
What, will you have them weep our horses' blood?
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How shall we, then, behold their natural tears?
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Enter Messenger

Messenger
The English are embattled, you French peers.
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Constable
To horse, you gallant princes! straight to horse!
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Do but behold yon poor and starved band,
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And your fair show shall suck away their souls,
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Leaving them but the shales and husks of men.
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There is not work enough for all our hands;
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Scarce blood enough in all their sickly veins
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To give each naked curtle-axe a stain,
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That our French gallants shall to-day draw out,
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And sheathe for lack of sport: let us but blow on them,
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The vapour of our valour will o'erturn them.
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'Tis positive 'gainst all exceptions, lords,
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That our superfluous lackeys and our peasants,
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Who in unnecessary action swarm
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About our squares of battle, were enow
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To purge this field of such a hilding foe,
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Though we upon this mountain's basis by
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Took stand for idle speculation:
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But that our honours must not. What's to say?
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A very little little let us do.
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And all is done. Then let the trumpets sound
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The tucket sonance and the note to mount;
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For our approach shall so much dare the field
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That England shall couch down in fear and yield.
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Enter GRANDPRE

GRANDPRE
Why do you stay so long, my lords of France?
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Yon island carrions, desperate of their bones,
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Ill-favouredly become the morning field:
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Their ragged curtains poorly are let loose,
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And our air shakes them passing scornfully:
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Big Mars seems bankrupt in their beggar'd host
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And faintly through a rusty beaver peeps:
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The horsemen sit like fixed candlesticks,
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With torch-staves in their hand; and their poor jades
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Lob down their heads, dropping the hides and hips,
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The gum down-roping from their pale-dead eyes
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And in their pale dull mouths the gimmal bit
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Lies foul with chew'd grass, still and motionless;
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And their executors, the knavish crows,
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Fly o'er them, all impatient for their hour.
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Description cannot suit itself in words
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To demonstrate the life of such a battle
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In life so lifeless as it shows itself.
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Constable
They have said their prayers, and they stay for death.
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DAUPHIN
Shall we go send them dinners and fresh suits
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And give their fasting horses provender,
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And after fight with them?
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Constable
I stay but for my guidon: to the field!
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I will the banner from a trumpet take,
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And use it for my haste. Come, come, away!
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The sun is high, and we outwear the day.
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Exeunt

SCENE III. The English camp.

Scene 3 of Act 4 takes place in the English camp in France during the Hundred Years' War. King Henry V is discussing the upcoming battle with his brothers Gloucester and Clarence and his cousin Warwick.

Henry expresses his doubts about the outcome of the battle and wonders if they are doing the right thing. Gloucester and Clarence try to reassure him and boost his confidence, telling him that he is a great leader and that God is on their side.

Warwick then enters the tent with news that the French army has been spotted nearby. Henry orders his men to prepare for battle, and they all exit the tent to get ready.

Before leaving, Henry gives a rousing speech to his troops, urging them to fight bravely and honorably. He tells them that they are fighting for their country and their king, and that they must do everything in their power to emerge victorious.

The scene ends with Henry and his army marching off to face the French, ready for battle.

Enter GLOUCESTER, BEDFORD, EXETER, ERPINGHAM, with all his host: SALISBURY and WESTMORELAND

GLOUCESTER
Where is the king?
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BEDFORD
The king himself is rode to view their battle.
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WESTMORELAND
Of fighting men they have full three score thousand.
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EXETER
There's five to one; besides, they all are fresh.
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SALISBURY
God's arm strike with us! 'tis a fearful odds.
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God be wi' you, princes all; I'll to my charge:
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If we no more meet till we meet in heaven,
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Then, joyfully, my noble Lord of Bedford,
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My dear Lord Gloucester, and my good Lord Exeter,
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And my kind kinsman, warriors all, adieu!
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BEDFORD
Farewell, good Salisbury; and good luck go with thee!
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EXETER
Farewell, kind lord; fight valiantly to-day:
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And yet I do thee wrong to mind thee of it,
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For thou art framed of the firm truth of valour.
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Exit SALISBURY

BEDFORD
He is full of valour as of kindness;
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Princely in both.
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Enter the KING

WESTMORELAND
O that we now had here
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But one ten thousand of those men in England
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That do no work to-day!
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KING HENRY V
What's he that wishes so?
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My cousin Westmoreland? No, my fair cousin:
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If we are mark'd to die, we are enow
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To do our country loss; and if to live,
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The fewer men, the greater share of honour.
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God's will! I pray thee, wish not one man more.
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By Jove, I am not covetous for gold,
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Nor care I who doth feed upon my cost;
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It yearns me not if men my garments wear;
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Such outward things dwell not in my desires:
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But if it be a sin to covet honour,
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I am the most offending soul alive.
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No, faith, my coz, wish not a man from England:
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God's peace! I would not lose so great an honour
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As one man more, methinks, would share from me
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For the best hope I have. O, do not wish one more!
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Rather proclaim it, Westmoreland, through my host,
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That he which hath no stomach to this fight,
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Let him depart; his passport shall be made
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And crowns for convoy put into his purse:
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We would not die in that man's company
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That fears his fellowship to die with us.
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This day is called the feast of Crispian:
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He that outlives this day, and comes safe home,
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Will stand a tip-toe when the day is named,
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And rouse him at the name of Crispian.
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He that shall live this day, and see old age,
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Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbours,
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And say 'To-morrow is Saint Crispian:'
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Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars.
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And say 'These wounds I had on Crispin's day.'
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Old men forget: yet all shall be forgot,
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But he'll remember with advantages
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What feats he did that day: then shall our names.
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Familiar in his mouth as household words
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Harry the king, Bedford and Exeter,
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Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury and Gloucester,
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Be in their flowing cups freshly remember'd.
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This story shall the good man teach his son;
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And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by,
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From this day to the ending of the world,
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But we in it shall be remember'd;
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We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
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For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
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Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile,
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This day shall gentle his condition:
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And gentlemen in England now a-bed
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Shall think themselves accursed they were not here,
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And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
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That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day.
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Re-enter SALISBURY

SALISBURY
My sovereign lord, bestow yourself with speed:
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The French are bravely in their battles set,
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And will with all expedience charge on us.
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KING HENRY V
All things are ready, if our minds be so.
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WESTMORELAND
Perish the man whose mind is backward now!
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KING HENRY V
Thou dost not wish more help from England, coz?
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WESTMORELAND
God's will! my liege, would you and I alone,
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Without more help, could fight this royal battle!
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KING HENRY V
Why, now thou hast unwish'd five thousand men;
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Which likes me better than to wish us one.
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You know your places: God be with you all!
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Tucket. Enter MONTJOY

MONTJOY
Once more I come to know of thee, King Harry,
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If for thy ransom thou wilt now compound,
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Before thy most assured overthrow:
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For certainly thou art so near the gulf,
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Thou needs must be englutted. Besides, in mercy,
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The constable desires thee thou wilt mind
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Thy followers of repentance; that their souls
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May make a peaceful and a sweet retire
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From off these fields, where, wretches, their poor bodies
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Must lie and fester.
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KING HENRY V
Who hath sent thee now?
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MONTJOY
The Constable of France.
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KING HENRY V
I pray thee, bear my former answer back:
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Bid them achieve me and then sell my bones.
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Good God! why should they mock poor fellows thus?
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The man that once did sell the lion's skin
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While the beast lived, was killed with hunting him.
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A many of our bodies shall no doubt
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Find native graves; upon the which, I trust,
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Shall witness live in brass of this day's work:
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And those that leave their valiant bones in France,
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Dying like men, though buried in your dunghills,
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They shall be famed; for there the sun shall greet them,
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And draw their honours reeking up to heaven;
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Leaving their earthly parts to choke your clime,
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The smell whereof shall breed a plague in France.
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Mark then abounding valour in our English,
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That being dead, like to the bullet's grazing,
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Break out into a second course of mischief,
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Killing in relapse of mortality.
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Let me speak proudly: tell the constable
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We are but warriors for the working-day;
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Our gayness and our gilt are all besmirch'd
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With rainy marching in the painful field;
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There's not a piece of feather in our host--
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Good argument, I hope, we will not fly--
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And time hath worn us into slovenry:
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But, by the mass, our hearts are in the trim;
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And my poor soldiers tell me, yet ere night
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They'll be in fresher robes, or they will pluck
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The gay new coats o'er the French soldiers' heads
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And turn them out of service. If they do this,--
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As, if God please, they shall,--my ransom then
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Will soon be levied. Herald, save thou thy labour;
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Come thou no more for ransom, gentle herald:
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They shall have none, I swear, but these my joints;
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Which if they have as I will leave 'em them,
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Shall yield them little, tell the constable.
Link: 4.3.128

MONTJOY
I shall, King Harry. And so fare thee well:
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Thou never shalt hear herald any more.
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Exit

KING HENRY V
I fear thou'lt once more come again for ransom.
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Enter YORK

YORK
My lord, most humbly on my knee I beg
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The leading of the vaward.
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KING HENRY V
Take it, brave York. Now, soldiers, march away:
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And how thou pleasest, God, dispose the day!
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Exeunt

SCENE IV. The field of battle.

In Scene 4 of Act 4, the main character is seen walking through the English camp in disguise. He overhears his soldiers talking about the impending battle and their fears. He talks to them and tries to boost their morale, telling them that they are fighting for a noble cause and that victory is within their grasp.

He then meets a soldier who is convinced that the battle will result in defeat. The main character, still in disguise, tries to convince him that victory is possible. He tells the soldier that if they lose, it will be because they did not fight hard enough. The soldier is convinced and promises to fight with all his might.

The main character then meets another soldier who is mourning the loss of his friend. The main character comforts him and tells him that his friend did not die in vain. He tells him that they are fighting for a greater cause and that their sacrifices will be remembered for generations to come.

The scene ends with the main character leaving the soldiers and going back to his tent, where he reflects on the upcoming battle and the weight of his responsibilities as a leader.

Alarum. Excursions. Enter PISTOL, French Soldier, and Boy

PISTOL
Yield, cur!
Link: 4.4.1

French Soldier
Je pense que vous etes gentilhomme de bonne qualite.
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PISTOL
Qualtitie calmie custure me! Art thou a gentleman?
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what is thy name? discuss.
Link: 4.4.4

French Soldier
O Seigneur Dieu!
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PISTOL
O, Signieur Dew should be a gentleman:
Link: 4.4.6
Perpend my words, O Signieur Dew, and mark;
Link: 4.4.7
O Signieur Dew, thou diest on point of fox,
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Except, O signieur, thou do give to me
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Egregious ransom.
Link: 4.4.10

French Soldier
O, prenez misericorde! ayez pitie de moi!
Link: 4.4.11

PISTOL
Moy shall not serve; I will have forty moys;
Link: 4.4.12
Or I will fetch thy rim out at thy throat
Link: 4.4.13
In drops of crimson blood.
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French Soldier
Est-il impossible d'echapper la force de ton bras?
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PISTOL
Brass, cur!
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Thou damned and luxurious mountain goat,
Link: 4.4.17
Offer'st me brass?
Link: 4.4.18

French Soldier
O pardonnez moi!
Link: 4.4.19

PISTOL
Say'st thou me so? is that a ton of moys?
Link: 4.4.20
Come hither, boy: ask me this slave in French
Link: 4.4.21
What is his name.
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Boy
Ecoutez: comment etes-vous appele?
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French Soldier
Monsieur le Fer.
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Boy
He says his name is Master Fer.
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PISTOL
Master Fer! I'll fer him, and firk him, and ferret
Link: 4.4.26
him: discuss the same in French unto him.
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Boy
I do not know the French for fer, and ferret, and firk.
Link: 4.4.28

PISTOL
Bid him prepare; for I will cut his throat.
Link: 4.4.29

French Soldier
Que dit-il, monsieur?
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Boy
Il me commande de vous dire que vous faites vous
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pret; car ce soldat ici est dispose tout a cette
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heure de couper votre gorge.
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PISTOL
Owy, cuppele gorge, permafoy,
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Peasant, unless thou give me crowns, brave crowns;
Link: 4.4.35
Or mangled shalt thou be by this my sword.
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French Soldier
O, je vous supplie, pour l'amour de Dieu, me
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pardonner! Je suis gentilhomme de bonne maison:
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gardez ma vie, et je vous donnerai deux cents ecus.
Link: 4.4.39

PISTOL
What are his words?
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Boy
He prays you to save his life: he is a gentleman of
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a good house; and for his ransom he will give you
Link: 4.4.42
two hundred crowns.
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PISTOL
Tell him my fury shall abate, and I the crowns will take.
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French Soldier
Petit monsieur, que dit-il?
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Boy
Encore qu'il est contre son jurement de pardonner
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aucun prisonnier, neanmoins, pour les ecus que vous
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l'avez promis, il est content de vous donner la
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liberte, le franchisement.
Link: 4.4.49

French Soldier
Sur mes genoux je vous donne mille remercimens; et
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je m'estime heureux que je suis tombe entre les
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mains d'un chevalier, je pense, le plus brave,
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vaillant, et tres distingue seigneur d'Angleterre.
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PISTOL
Expound unto me, boy.
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Boy
He gives you, upon his knees, a thousand thanks; and
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he esteems himself happy that he hath fallen into
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the hands of one, as he thinks, the most brave,
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valorous, and thrice-worthy signieur of England.
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PISTOL
As I suck blood, I will some mercy show.
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Follow me!
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Boy
Suivez-vous le grand capitaine.
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I did never know so full a voice issue from so
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empty a heart: but the saying is true 'The empty
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vessel makes the greatest sound.' Bardolph and Nym
Link: 4.4.64
had ten times more valour than this roaring devil i'
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the old play, that every one may pare his nails with
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a wooden dagger; and they are both hanged; and so
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would this be, if he durst steal any thing
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adventurously. I must stay with the lackeys, with
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the luggage of our camp: the French might have a
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good prey of us, if he knew of it; for there is
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none to guard it but boys.
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Exit

SCENE V. Another part of the field.

Scene 5 of Act 4 takes place in the French camp, where the French are preparing for battle against the English. The Constable of France and the Duke of Orleans discuss the English army's strength and their own battle strategy. They are confident in their ability to defeat the English, but the Dauphin, who has just arrived, is dismissive of their plans and suggests that they should have waited for reinforcements.

The Constable and the Duke are annoyed with the Dauphin's arrogance and remind him that he is not the king. The Dauphin responds with a mocking speech, insulting the English and their king, Henry V. Suddenly, a messenger arrives with news that the English are approaching and the French prepare for battle.

The Dauphin is eager to confront the English, but the Constable advises caution and suggests that they wait for the English to attack first. The Duke agrees, but the Dauphin is impatient and insists on attacking immediately. The Constable and the Duke reluctantly agree to his plan.

The French army marches out to face the English and the scene ends with the sound of trumpets and drums as the two armies prepare for battle.

Enter Constable, ORLEANS, BOURBON, DAUPHIN, and RAMBURES

Constable
O diable!
Link: 4.5.1

ORLEANS
O seigneur! le jour est perdu, tout est perdu!
Link: 4.5.2

DAUPHIN
Mort de ma vie! all is confounded, all!
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Reproach and everlasting shame
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Sits mocking in our plumes. O merchante fortune!
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Do not run away.
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A short alarum

Constable
Why, all our ranks are broke.
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DAUPHIN
O perdurable shame! let's stab ourselves.
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Be these the wretches that we play'd at dice for?
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ORLEANS
Is this the king we sent to for his ransom?
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BOURBON
Shame and eternal shame, nothing but shame!
Link: 4.5.11
Let us die in honour: once more back again;
Link: 4.5.12
And he that will not follow Bourbon now,
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Let him go hence, and with his cap in hand,
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Like a base pander, hold the chamber-door
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Whilst by a slave, no gentler than my dog,
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His fairest daughter is contaminated.
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Constable
Disorder, that hath spoil'd us, friend us now!
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Let us on heaps go offer up our lives.
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ORLEANS
We are enow yet living in the field
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To smother up the English in our throngs,
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If any order might be thought upon.
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BOURBON
The devil take order now! I'll to the throng:
Link: 4.5.23
Let life be short; else shame will be too long.
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Exeunt

SCENE VI. Another part of the field.

In Scene 6 of Act 4, the King's army is preparing for a battle with the French army at Agincourt. The night before the battle, the King disguises himself as a common soldier and walks among his troops, listening to their conversations and boosting their morale. He talks to a group of soldiers who are worried about the outcome of the battle, and he assures them that they have the advantage of being Englishmen and fighting on their own soil.

The King then goes to a tent where three of his old friends from his days as Prince Hal are gathered. They reminisce about old times and the King reveals his true identity to them. He asks them to pray for him and for the success of their mission. They do so, and the King leaves to prepare for battle.

The scene ends with the chorus expressing hope that the battle will end in victory for the English, despite their outnumbered and exhausted state.

Alarums. Enter KING HENRY and forces, EXETER, and others

KING HENRY V
Well have we done, thrice valiant countrymen:
Link: 4.6.1
But all's not done; yet keep the French the field.
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EXETER
The Duke of York commends him to your majesty.
Link: 4.6.3

KING HENRY V
Lives he, good uncle? thrice within this hour
Link: 4.6.4
I saw him down; thrice up again and fighting;
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From helmet to the spur all blood he was.
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EXETER
In which array, brave soldier, doth he lie,
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Larding the plain; and by his bloody side,
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Yoke-fellow to his honour-owing wounds,
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The noble Earl of Suffolk also lies.
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Suffolk first died: and York, all haggled over,
Link: 4.6.11
Comes to him, where in gore he lay insteep'd,
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And takes him by the beard; kisses the gashes
Link: 4.6.13
That bloodily did spawn upon his face;
Link: 4.6.14
And cries aloud 'Tarry, dear cousin Suffolk!
Link: 4.6.15
My soul shall thine keep company to heaven;
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Tarry, sweet soul, for mine, then fly abreast,
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As in this glorious and well-foughten field
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We kept together in our chivalry!'
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Upon these words I came and cheer'd him up:
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He smiled me in the face, raught me his hand,
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And, with a feeble gripe, says 'Dear my lord,
Link: 4.6.22
Commend my service to me sovereign.'
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So did he turn and over Suffolk's neck
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He threw his wounded arm and kiss'd his lips;
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And so espoused to death, with blood he seal'd
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A testament of noble-ending love.
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The pretty and sweet manner of it forced
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Those waters from me which I would have stopp'd;
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But I had not so much of man in me,
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And all my mother came into mine eyes
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And gave me up to tears.
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KING HENRY V
I blame you not;
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For, hearing this, I must perforce compound
Link: 4.6.34
With mistful eyes, or they will issue too.
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But, hark! what new alarum is this same?
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The French have reinforced their scatter'd men:
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Then every soldier kill his prisoners:
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Give the word through.
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Exeunt

SCENE VII. Another part of the field.

In Scene 7 of Act 4, a group of soldiers are gathered around a fire discussing the upcoming battle. They are joined by their king, who is disguised as a common soldier. The soldiers are unaware of his true identity.

The king engages in conversation with the soldiers, asking them about their thoughts on the upcoming battle. They express their doubts and fears, but also their loyalty to their country and their determination to fight for what they believe in.

The king then reveals his true identity to the soldiers and delivers a powerful speech, inspiring them to fight with courage and determination. He tells them that they are not just fighting for their country, but for the honor and glory of their name and their ancestors.

The soldiers are moved by the king's words and pledge their loyalty to him. They march off to battle, determined to fight with all their might and defend their country from their enemies.

As the soldiers depart, the king is left alone by the fire. He reflects on the weight of his responsibility as a leader and the sacrifices that he must make for the good of his country. He prays for strength and guidance as he leads his men into battle.

Enter FLUELLEN and GOWER

FLUELLEN
Kill the poys and the luggage! 'tis expressly
Link: 4.7.1
against the law of arms: 'tis as arrant a piece of
Link: 4.7.2
knavery, mark you now, as can be offer't; in your
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conscience, now, is it not?
Link: 4.7.4

GOWER
'Tis certain there's not a boy left alive; and the
Link: 4.7.5
cowardly rascals that ran from the battle ha' done
Link: 4.7.6
this slaughter: besides, they have burned and
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carried away all that was in the king's tent;
Link: 4.7.8
wherefore the king, most worthily, hath caused every
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soldier to cut his prisoner's throat. O, 'tis a
Link: 4.7.10
gallant king!
Link: 4.7.11

FLUELLEN
Ay, he was porn at Monmouth, Captain Gower. What
Link: 4.7.12
call you the town's name where Alexander the Pig was born!
Link: 4.7.13

GOWER
Alexander the Great.
Link: 4.7.14

FLUELLEN
Why, I pray you, is not pig great? the pig, or the
Link: 4.7.15
great, or the mighty, or the huge, or the
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magnanimous, are all one reckonings, save the phrase
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is a little variations.
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GOWER
I think Alexander the Great was born in Macedon; his
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father was called Philip of Macedon, as I take it.
Link: 4.7.20

FLUELLEN
I think it is in Macedon where Alexander is porn. I
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tell you, captain, if you look in the maps of the
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'orld, I warrant you sall find, in the comparisons
Link: 4.7.23
between Macedon and Monmouth, that the situations,
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look you, is both alike. There is a river in
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Macedon; and there is also moreover a river at
Link: 4.7.26
Monmouth: it is called Wye at Monmouth; but it is
Link: 4.7.27
out of my prains what is the name of the other
Link: 4.7.28
river; but 'tis all one, 'tis alike as my fingers is
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to my fingers, and there is salmons in both. If you
Link: 4.7.30
mark Alexander's life well, Harry of Monmouth's life
Link: 4.7.31
is come after it indifferent well; for there is
Link: 4.7.32
figures in all things. Alexander, God knows, and
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you know, in his rages, and his furies, and his
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wraths, and his cholers, and his moods, and his
Link: 4.7.35
displeasures, and his indignations, and also being a
Link: 4.7.36
little intoxicates in his prains, did, in his ales and
Link: 4.7.37
his angers, look you, kill his best friend, Cleitus.
Link: 4.7.38

GOWER
Our king is not like him in that: he never killed
Link: 4.7.39
any of his friends.
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FLUELLEN
It is not well done, mark you now take the tales out
Link: 4.7.41
of my mouth, ere it is made and finished. I speak
Link: 4.7.42
but in the figures and comparisons of it: as
Link: 4.7.43
Alexander killed his friend Cleitus, being in his
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ales and his cups; so also Harry Monmouth, being in
Link: 4.7.45
his right wits and his good judgments, turned away
Link: 4.7.46
the fat knight with the great belly-doublet: he
Link: 4.7.47
was full of jests, and gipes, and knaveries, and
Link: 4.7.48
mocks; I have forgot his name.
Link: 4.7.49

GOWER
Sir John Falstaff.
Link: 4.7.50

FLUELLEN
That is he: I'll tell you there is good men porn at Monmouth.
Link: 4.7.51

GOWER
Here comes his majesty.
Link: 4.7.52

Alarum. Enter KING HENRY, and forces; WARWICK, GLOUCESTER, EXETER, and others

KING HENRY V
I was not angry since I came to France
Link: 4.7.53
Until this instant. Take a trumpet, herald;
Link: 4.7.54
Ride thou unto the horsemen on yon hill:
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If they will fight with us, bid them come down,
Link: 4.7.56
Or void the field; they do offend our sight:
Link: 4.7.57
If they'll do neither, we will come to them,
Link: 4.7.58
And make them skirr away, as swift as stones
Link: 4.7.59
Enforced from the old Assyrian slings:
Link: 4.7.60
Besides, we'll cut the throats of those we have,
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And not a man of them that we shall take
Link: 4.7.62
Shall taste our mercy. Go and tell them so.
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Enter MONTJOY

EXETER
Here comes the herald of the French, my liege.
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GLOUCESTER
His eyes are humbler than they used to be.
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KING HENRY V
How now! what means this, herald? know'st thou not
Link: 4.7.66
That I have fined these bones of mine for ransom?
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Comest thou again for ransom?
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MONTJOY
No, great king:
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I come to thee for charitable licence,
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That we may wander o'er this bloody field
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To look our dead, and then to bury them;
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To sort our nobles from our common men.
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For many of our princes--woe the while!--
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Lie drown'd and soak'd in mercenary blood;
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So do our vulgar drench their peasant limbs
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In blood of princes; and their wounded steeds
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Fret fetlock deep in gore and with wild rage
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Yerk out their armed heels at their dead masters,
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Killing them twice. O, give us leave, great king,
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To view the field in safety and dispose
Link: 4.7.81
Of their dead bodies!
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KING HENRY V
I tell thee truly, herald,
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I know not if the day be ours or no;
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For yet a many of your horsemen peer
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And gallop o'er the field.
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MONTJOY
The day is yours.
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KING HENRY V
Praised be God, and not our strength, for it!
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What is this castle call'd that stands hard by?
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MONTJOY
They call it Agincourt.
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KING HENRY V
Then call we this the field of Agincourt,
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Fought on the day of Crispin Crispianus.
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FLUELLEN
Your grandfather of famous memory, an't please your
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majesty, and your great-uncle Edward the Plack
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Prince of Wales, as I have read in the chronicles,
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fought a most prave pattle here in France.
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KING HENRY V
They did, Fluellen.
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FLUELLEN
Your majesty says very true: if your majesties is
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remembered of it, the Welshmen did good service in a
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garden where leeks did grow, wearing leeks in their
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Monmouth caps; which, your majesty know, to this
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hour is an honourable badge of the service; and I do
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believe your majesty takes no scorn to wear the leek
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upon Saint Tavy's day.
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KING HENRY V
I wear it for a memorable honour;
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For I am Welsh, you know, good countryman.
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FLUELLEN
All the water in Wye cannot wash your majesty's
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Welsh plood out of your pody, I can tell you that:
Link: 4.7.108
God pless it and preserve it, as long as it pleases
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his grace, and his majesty too!
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KING HENRY V
Thanks, good my countryman.
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FLUELLEN
By Jeshu, I am your majesty's countryman, I care not
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who know it; I will confess it to all the 'orld: I
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need not to be ashamed of your majesty, praised be
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God, so long as your majesty is an honest man.
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KING HENRY V
God keep me so! Our heralds go with him:
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Bring me just notice of the numbers dead
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On both our parts. Call yonder fellow hither.
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Points to WILLIAMS. Exeunt Heralds with Montjoy

EXETER
Soldier, you must come to the king.
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KING HENRY V
Soldier, why wearest thou that glove in thy cap?
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WILLIAMS
An't please your majesty, 'tis the gage of one that
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I should fight withal, if he be alive.
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KING HENRY V
An Englishman?
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WILLIAMS
An't please your majesty, a rascal that swaggered
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with me last night; who, if alive and ever dare to
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challenge this glove, I have sworn to take him a box
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o' th' ear: or if I can see my glove in his cap,
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which he swore, as he was a soldier, he would wear
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if alive, I will strike it out soundly.
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KING HENRY V
What think you, Captain Fluellen? is it fit this
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soldier keep his oath?
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FLUELLEN
He is a craven and a villain else, an't please your
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majesty, in my conscience.
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KING HENRY V
It may be his enemy is a gentleman of great sort,
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quite from the answer of his degree.
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FLUELLEN
Though he be as good a gentleman as the devil is, as
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Lucifer and Belzebub himself, it is necessary, look
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your grace, that he keep his vow and his oath: if
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he be perjured, see you now, his reputation is as
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arrant a villain and a Jacksauce, as ever his black
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shoe trod upon God's ground and his earth, in my
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conscience, la!
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KING HENRY V
Then keep thy vow, sirrah, when thou meetest the fellow.
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WILLIAMS
So I will, my liege, as I live.
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KING HENRY V
Who servest thou under?
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WILLIAMS
Under Captain Gower, my liege.
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FLUELLEN
Gower is a good captain, and is good knowledge and
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literatured in the wars.
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KING HENRY V
Call him hither to me, soldier.
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WILLIAMS
I will, my liege.
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Exit

KING HENRY V
Here, Fluellen; wear thou this favour for me and
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stick it in thy cap: when Alencon and myself were
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down together, I plucked this glove from his helm:
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if any man challenge this, he is a friend to
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Alencon, and an enemy to our person; if thou
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encounter any such, apprehend him, an thou dost me love.
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FLUELLEN
Your grace doo's me as great honours as can be
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desired in the hearts of his subjects: I would fain
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see the man, that has but two legs, that shall find
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himself aggrieved at this glove; that is all; but I
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would fain see it once, an please God of his grace
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that I might see.
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KING HENRY V
Knowest thou Gower?
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FLUELLEN
He is my dear friend, an please you.
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KING HENRY V
Pray thee, go seek him, and bring him to my tent.
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FLUELLEN
I will fetch him.
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Exit

KING HENRY V
My Lord of Warwick, and my brother Gloucester,
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Follow Fluellen closely at the heels:
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The glove which I have given him for a favour
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May haply purchase him a box o' th' ear;
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It is the soldier's; I by bargain should
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Wear it myself. Follow, good cousin Warwick:
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If that the soldier strike him, as I judge
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By his blunt bearing he will keep his word,
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Some sudden mischief may arise of it;
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For I do know Fluellen valiant
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And, touched with choler, hot as gunpowder,
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And quickly will return an injury:
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Follow and see there be no harm between them.
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Go you with me, uncle of Exeter.
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Exeunt

SCENE VIII. Before KING HENRY'S pavilion.

Scene 8 of Act 4 of this classic play sees the English army faced with a tough challenge as they prepare to face the French. The Duke of Orleans, a French nobleman, sends a message to the English king, Henry V, mocking his ability as a ruler and challenging him to a duel. Henry responds by saying that he will accept the challenge and face the Duke in battle.

However, the Duke then sends another message, asking Henry to reconsider and suggesting that they settle their differences through negotiation instead. Henry agrees to meet with the Duke and hear him out, but he is wary of the Frenchman's intentions and sends a spy to listen in on their conversation.

The spy reports back to Henry that the Duke's words were insincere and that he is still planning to attack the English army. Henry responds by ordering his troops to prepare for battle, despite being heavily outnumbered. He delivers an inspiring speech to his men, urging them to fight bravely and reminding them of their duty to their country. The soldiers are fired up by his words, and they prepare to face the French army with courage and determination.

The scene ends with the English army marching towards the French, ready to engage in battle. It is a tense and dramatic moment, as both sides prepare to face each other in what will be a brutal and bloody conflict.

Enter GOWER and WILLIAMS

WILLIAMS
I warrant it is to knight you, captain.
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Enter FLUELLEN

FLUELLEN
God's will and his pleasure, captain, I beseech you
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now, come apace to the king: there is more good
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toward you peradventure than is in your knowledge to dream of.
Link: 4.8.4

WILLIAMS
Sir, know you this glove?
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FLUELLEN
Know the glove! I know the glove is glove.
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WILLIAMS
I know this; and thus I challenge it.
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Strikes him

FLUELLEN
'Sblood! an arrant traitor as any is in the
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universal world, or in France, or in England!
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GOWER
How now, sir! you villain!
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WILLIAMS
Do you think I'll be forsworn?
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FLUELLEN
Stand away, Captain Gower; I will give treason his
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payment into ploughs, I warrant you.
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WILLIAMS
I am no traitor.
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FLUELLEN
That's a lie in thy throat. I charge you in his
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majesty's name, apprehend him: he's a friend of the
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Duke Alencon's.
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Enter WARWICK and GLOUCESTER

WARWICK
How now, how now! what's the matter?
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FLUELLEN
My Lord of Warwick, here is--praised be God for it!
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--a most contagious treason come to light, look
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you, as you shall desire in a summer's day. Here is
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his majesty.
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Enter KING HENRY and EXETER

KING HENRY V
How now! what's the matter?
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FLUELLEN
My liege, here is a villain and a traitor, that,
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look your grace, has struck the glove which your
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majesty is take out of the helmet of Alencon.
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WILLIAMS
My liege, this was my glove; here is the fellow of
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it; and he that I gave it to in change promised to
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wear it in his cap: I promised to strike him, if he
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did: I met this man with my glove in his cap, and I
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have been as good as my word.
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FLUELLEN
Your majesty hear now, saving your majesty's
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manhood, what an arrant, rascally, beggarly, lousy
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knave it is: I hope your majesty is pear me
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testimony and witness, and will avouchment, that
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this is the glove of Alencon, that your majesty is
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give me; in your conscience, now?
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KING HENRY V
Give me thy glove, soldier: look, here is the
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fellow of it.
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'Twas I, indeed, thou promised'st to strike;
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And thou hast given me most bitter terms.
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FLUELLEN
An please your majesty, let his neck answer for it,
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if there is any martial law in the world.
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KING HENRY V
How canst thou make me satisfaction?
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WILLIAMS
All offences, my lord, come from the heart: never
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came any from mine that might offend your majesty.
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KING HENRY V
It was ourself thou didst abuse.
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WILLIAMS
Your majesty came not like yourself: you appeared to
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me but as a common man; witness the night, your
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garments, your lowliness; and what your highness
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suffered under that shape, I beseech you take it for
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your own fault and not mine: for had you been as I
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took you for, I made no offence; therefore, I
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beseech your highness, pardon me.
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KING HENRY V
Here, uncle Exeter, fill this glove with crowns,
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And give it to this fellow. Keep it, fellow;
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And wear it for an honour in thy cap
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Till I do challenge it. Give him the crowns:
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And, captain, you must needs be friends with him.
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FLUELLEN
By this day and this light, the fellow has mettle
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enough in his belly. Hold, there is twelve pence
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for you; and I pray you to serve Got, and keep you
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out of prawls, and prabbles' and quarrels, and
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dissensions, and, I warrant you, it is the better for you.
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WILLIAMS
I will none of your money.
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FLUELLEN
It is with a good will; I can tell you, it will
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serve you to mend your shoes: come, wherefore should
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you be so pashful? your shoes is not so good: 'tis
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a good silling, I warrant you, or I will change it.
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Enter an English Herald

KING HENRY V
Now, herald, are the dead number'd?
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Herald
Here is the number of the slaughter'd French.
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KING HENRY V
What prisoners of good sort are taken, uncle?
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EXETER
Charles Duke of Orleans, nephew to the king;
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John Duke of Bourbon, and Lord Bouciqualt:
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Of other lords and barons, knights and squires,
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Full fifteen hundred, besides common men.
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KING HENRY V
This note doth tell me of ten thousand French
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That in the field lie slain: of princes, in this number,
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And nobles bearing banners, there lie dead
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One hundred twenty six: added to these,
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Of knights, esquires, and gallant gentlemen,
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Eight thousand and four hundred; of the which,
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Five hundred were but yesterday dubb'd knights:
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So that, in these ten thousand they have lost,
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There are but sixteen hundred mercenaries;
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The rest are princes, barons, lords, knights, squires,
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And gentlemen of blood and quality.
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The names of those their nobles that lie dead:
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Charles Delabreth, high constable of France;
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Jaques of Chatillon, admiral of France;
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The master of the cross-bows, Lord Rambures;
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Great Master of France, the brave Sir Guichard Dolphin,
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John Duke of Alencon, Anthony Duke of Brabant,
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The brother of the Duke of Burgundy,
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And Edward Duke of Bar: of lusty earls,
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Grandpre and Roussi, Fauconberg and Foix,
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Beaumont and Marle, Vaudemont and Lestrale.
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Here was a royal fellowship of death!
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Where is the number of our English dead?
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Edward the Duke of York, the Earl of Suffolk,
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Sir Richard Ketly, Davy Gam, esquire:
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None else of name; and of all other men
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But five and twenty. O God, thy arm was here;
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And not to us, but to thy arm alone,
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Ascribe we all! When, without stratagem,
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But in plain shock and even play of battle,
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Was ever known so great and little loss
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On one part and on the other? Take it, God,
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For it is none but thine!
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EXETER
'Tis wonderful!
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KING HENRY V
Come, go we in procession to the village.
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And be it death proclaimed through our host
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To boast of this or take the praise from God
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Which is his only.
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FLUELLEN
Is it not lawful, an please your majesty, to tell
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how many is killed?
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KING HENRY V
Yes, captain; but with this acknowledgement,
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That God fought for us.
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FLUELLEN
Yes, my conscience, he did us great good.
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KING HENRY V
Do we all holy rites;
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Let there be sung 'Non nobis' and 'Te Deum;'
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The dead with charity enclosed in clay:
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And then to Calais; and to England then:
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Where ne'er from France arrived more happy men.
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Exeunt

Act V

Act 5 of Henry V is the climax of the play and features the famous Battle of Agincourt between the English and French armies. The English, led by King Henry, are heavily outnumbered and face almost certain defeat. However, they are able to win a miraculous victory thanks to their superior tactics and the bravery of their soldiers.

The battle is depicted in vivid detail, with both sides suffering heavy losses. King Henry himself fights on the front lines and is nearly killed, but is saved by his loyal followers. Eventually, the French are forced to retreat and the English emerge victorious.

After the battle, King Henry meets with the French princess, Katherine, and they fall in love. The play ends on a hopeful note, with the promise of peace between England and France and the possibility of a happy future for the young couple.

PROLOGUE.

Enter Chorus

Chorus
Vouchsafe to those that have not read the story,
Link: 5.pro.1
That I may prompt them: and of such as have,
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I humbly pray them to admit the excuse
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Of time, of numbers and due course of things,
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Which cannot in their huge and proper life
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Be here presented. Now we bear the king
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Toward Calais: grant him there; there seen,
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Heave him away upon your winged thoughts
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Athwart the sea. Behold, the English beach
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Pales in the flood with men, with wives and boys,
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Whose shouts and claps out-voice the deep mouth'd sea,
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Which like a mighty whiffler 'fore the king
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Seems to prepare his way: so let him land,
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And solemnly see him set on to London.
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So swift a pace hath thought that even now
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You may imagine him upon Blackheath;
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Where that his lords desire him to have borne
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His bruised helmet and his bended sword
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Before him through the city: he forbids it,
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Being free from vainness and self-glorious pride;
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Giving full trophy, signal and ostent
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Quite from himself to God. But now behold,
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In the quick forge and working-house of thought,
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How London doth pour out her citizens!
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The mayor and all his brethren in best sort,
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Like to the senators of the antique Rome,
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With the plebeians swarming at their heels,
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Go forth and fetch their conquering Caesar in:
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As, by a lower but loving likelihood,
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Were now the general of our gracious empress,
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As in good time he may, from Ireland coming,
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Bringing rebellion broached on his sword,
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How many would the peaceful city quit,
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To welcome him! much more, and much more cause,
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Did they this Harry. Now in London place him;
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As yet the lamentation of the French
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Invites the King of England's stay at home;
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The emperor's coming in behalf of France,
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To order peace between them; and omit
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All the occurrences, whatever chanced,
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Till Harry's back-return again to France:
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There must we bring him; and myself have play'd
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The interim, by remembering you 'tis past.
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Then brook abridgment, and your eyes advance,
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After your thoughts, straight back again to France.
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Exit

SCENE I. France. The English camp.

In Scene 1 of Act 5, a group of English soldiers prepare for battle against the French. They discuss the strength of the French army and express concerns about their own chances of victory. One soldier suggests that they should pray for divine intervention, while another questions the morality of their cause. Meanwhile, the French king and his advisors debate strategy and express confidence in their ability to defeat the English. The king orders his troops to prepare for battle and expresses his desire to capture the English king, Henry V.

As the two armies approach each other, Henry V enters the scene disguised as a common soldier. He speaks with several soldiers and learns about their fears and doubts. He encourages them to have faith in their cause and promises that they will be remembered as heroes if they are victorious. He also meets with a group of French soldiers and engages in a witty exchange of insults before returning to his own troops.

The battle begins and both sides fight fiercely. The English initially struggle, but soon gain the upper hand thanks to their superior archers. The French suffer heavy losses and many of their leaders are killed or captured. The English soldiers find themselves facing the French king, who challenges Henry V to single combat. The two kings engage in a fierce battle before Henry emerges victorious. With the French army in disarray, the English emerge triumphant.

Enter FLUELLEN and GOWER

GOWER
Nay, that's right; but why wear you your leek today?
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Saint Davy's day is past.
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FLUELLEN
There is occasions and causes why and wherefore in
Link: 5.1.3
all things: I will tell you, asse my friend,
Link: 5.1.4
Captain Gower: the rascally, scald, beggarly,
Link: 5.1.5
lousy, pragging knave, Pistol, which you and
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yourself and all the world know to be no petter
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than a fellow, look you now, of no merits, he is
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come to me and prings me pread and salt yesterday,
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look you, and bid me eat my leek: it was in place
Link: 5.1.10
where I could not breed no contention with him; but
Link: 5.1.11
I will be so bold as to wear it in my cap till I see
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him once again, and then I will tell him a little
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piece of my desires.
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Enter PISTOL

GOWER
Why, here he comes, swelling like a turkey-cock.
Link: 5.1.15

FLUELLEN
'Tis no matter for his swellings nor his
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turkey-cocks. God pless you, Aunchient Pistol! you
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scurvy, lousy knave, God pless you!
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PISTOL
Ha! art thou bedlam? dost thou thirst, base Trojan,
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To have me fold up Parca's fatal web?
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Hence! I am qualmish at the smell of leek.
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FLUELLEN
I peseech you heartily, scurvy, lousy knave, at my
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desires, and my requests, and my petitions, to eat,
Link: 5.1.23
look you, this leek: because, look you, you do not
Link: 5.1.24
love it, nor your affections and your appetites and
Link: 5.1.25
your digestions doo's not agree with it, I would
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desire you to eat it.
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PISTOL
Not for Cadwallader and all his goats.
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FLUELLEN
There is one goat for you.
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Will you be so good, scauld knave, as eat it?
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PISTOL
Base Trojan, thou shalt die.
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FLUELLEN
You say very true, scauld knave, when God's will is:
Link: 5.1.32
I will desire you to live in the mean time, and eat
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your victuals: come, there is sauce for it.
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You called me yesterday mountain-squire; but I will
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make you to-day a squire of low degree. I pray you,
Link: 5.1.36
fall to: if you can mock a leek, you can eat a leek.
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GOWER
Enough, captain: you have astonished him.
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FLUELLEN
I say, I will make him eat some part of my leek, or
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I will peat his pate four days. Bite, I pray you; it
Link: 5.1.40
is good for your green wound and your ploody coxcomb.
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PISTOL
Must I bite?
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FLUELLEN
Yes, certainly, and out of doubt and out of question
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too, and ambiguities.
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PISTOL
By this leek, I will most horribly revenge: I eat
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and eat, I swear--
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FLUELLEN
Eat, I pray you: will you have some more sauce to
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your leek? there is not enough leek to swear by.
Link: 5.1.48

PISTOL
Quiet thy cudgel; thou dost see I eat.
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FLUELLEN
Much good do you, scauld knave, heartily. Nay, pray
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you, throw none away; the skin is good for your
Link: 5.1.51
broken coxcomb. When you take occasions to see leeks
Link: 5.1.52
hereafter, I pray you, mock at 'em; that is all.
Link: 5.1.53

PISTOL

FLUELLEN
Ay, leeks is good: hold you, there is a groat to
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heal your pate.
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PISTOL
Me a groat!
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FLUELLEN
Yes, verily and in truth, you shall take it; or I
Link: 5.1.58
have another leek in my pocket, which you shall eat.
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PISTOL
I take thy groat in earnest of revenge.
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FLUELLEN
If I owe you any thing, I will pay you in cudgels:
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you shall be a woodmonger, and buy nothing of me but
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cudgels. God b' wi' you, and keep you, and heal your pate.
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Exit

PISTOL
All hell shall stir for this.
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GOWER
Go, go; you are a counterfeit cowardly knave. Will
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you mock at an ancient tradition, begun upon an
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honourable respect, and worn as a memorable trophy of
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predeceased valour and dare not avouch in your deeds
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any of your words? I have seen you gleeking and
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galling at this gentleman twice or thrice. You
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thought, because he could not speak English in the
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native garb, he could not therefore handle an
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English cudgel: you find it otherwise; and
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henceforth let a Welsh correction teach you a good
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English condition. Fare ye well.
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Exit

PISTOL
Doth Fortune play the huswife with me now?
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News have I, that my Nell is dead i' the spital
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Of malady of France;
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And there my rendezvous is quite cut off.
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Old I do wax; and from my weary limbs
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Honour is cudgelled. Well, bawd I'll turn,
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And something lean to cutpurse of quick hand.
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To England will I steal, and there I'll steal:
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And patches will I get unto these cudgell'd scars,
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And swear I got them in the Gallia wars.
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Exit

SCENE II. France. A royal palace.

In Scene 2 of Act 5, a group of English soldiers led by Fluellen and Gower encounter three French soldiers. The French soldiers challenge the English to a combat duel, but Fluellen insists that they must wait until the next day when the battle is scheduled to take place. The French soldiers mock the English, saying that they are cowards for not fighting immediately. Fluellen becomes angry and draws his sword, but Gower intervenes and calms him down.

One of the French soldiers then offers a glove as a symbol of challenge, and Fluellen accepts it. However, he warns the French that he will not fight dirty, as he believes in following the rules of chivalry. The French soldier insults Fluellen, calling him a Welsh dog, and a scuffle breaks out.

Gower separates the two sides and reminds them that they are on the same side, fighting for the same cause. He urges them to put aside their differences and work together to defeat their common enemy. The French soldiers eventually agree to wait until the next day to fight, and Fluellen and Gower depart.

The scene showcases the tension and animosity between the English and French armies, as well as the importance of following codes of honor and chivalry in battle. It also highlights the challenge of maintaining discipline and order among soldiers who come from different backgrounds and cultures.

Enter, at one door KING HENRY, EXETER, BEDFORD, GLOUCESTER, WARWICK, WESTMORELAND, and other Lords; at another, the FRENCH KING, QUEEN ISABEL, the PRINCESS KATHARINE, ALICE and other Ladies; the DUKE of BURGUNDY, and his train

KING HENRY V
Peace to this meeting, wherefore we are met!
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Unto our brother France, and to our sister,
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Health and fair time of day; joy and good wishes
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To our most fair and princely cousin Katharine;
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And, as a branch and member of this royalty,
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By whom this great assembly is contrived,
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We do salute you, Duke of Burgundy;
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And, princes French, and peers, health to you all!
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KING OF FRANCE
Right joyous are we to behold your face,
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Most worthy brother England; fairly met:
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So are you, princes English, every one.
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QUEEN ISABEL
So happy be the issue, brother England,
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Of this good day and of this gracious meeting,
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As we are now glad to behold your eyes;
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Your eyes, which hitherto have borne in them
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Against the French, that met them in their bent,
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The fatal balls of murdering basilisks:
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The venom of such looks, we fairly hope,
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Have lost their quality, and that this day
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Shall change all griefs and quarrels into love.
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KING HENRY V
To cry amen to that, thus we appear.
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QUEEN ISABEL
You English princes all, I do salute you.
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BURGUNDY
My duty to you both, on equal love,
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Great Kings of France and England! That I have labour'd,
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With all my wits, my pains and strong endeavours,
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To bring your most imperial majesties
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Unto this bar and royal interview,
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Your mightiness on both parts best can witness.
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Since then my office hath so far prevail'd
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That, face to face and royal eye to eye,
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You have congreeted, let it not disgrace me,
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If I demand, before this royal view,
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What rub or what impediment there is,
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Why that the naked, poor and mangled Peace,
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Dear nurse of arts and joyful births,
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Should not in this best garden of the world
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Our fertile France, put up her lovely visage?
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Alas, she hath from France too long been chased,
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And all her husbandry doth lie on heaps,
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Corrupting in its own fertility.
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Her vine, the merry cheerer of the heart,
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Unpruned dies; her hedges even-pleach'd,
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Like prisoners wildly overgrown with hair,
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Put forth disorder'd twigs; her fallow leas
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The darnel, hemlock and rank fumitory
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Doth root upon, while that the coulter rusts
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That should deracinate such savagery;
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The even mead, that erst brought sweetly forth
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The freckled cowslip, burnet and green clover,
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Wanting the scythe, all uncorrected, rank,
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Conceives by idleness and nothing teems
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But hateful docks, rough thistles, kecksies, burs,
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Losing both beauty and utility.
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And as our vineyards, fallows, meads and hedges,
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Defective in their natures, grow to wildness,
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Even so our houses and ourselves and children
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Have lost, or do not learn for want of time,
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The sciences that should become our country;
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But grow like savages,--as soldiers will
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That nothing do but meditate on blood,--
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To swearing and stern looks, diffused attire
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And every thing that seems unnatural.
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Which to reduce into our former favour
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You are assembled: and my speech entreats
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That I may know the let, why gentle Peace
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Should not expel these inconveniences
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And bless us with her former qualities.
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KING HENRY V
If, Duke of Burgundy, you would the peace,
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Whose want gives growth to the imperfections
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Which you have cited, you must buy that peace
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With full accord to all our just demands;
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Whose tenors and particular effects
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You have enscheduled briefly in your hands.
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BURGUNDY
The king hath heard them; to the which as yet
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There is no answer made.
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KING HENRY V
Well then the peace,
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Which you before so urged, lies in his answer.
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KING OF FRANCE
I have but with a cursorary eye
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O'erglanced the articles: pleaseth your grace
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To appoint some of your council presently
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To sit with us once more, with better heed
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To re-survey them, we will suddenly
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Pass our accept and peremptory answer.
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KING HENRY V
Brother, we shall. Go, uncle Exeter,
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And brother Clarence, and you, brother Gloucester,
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Warwick and Huntingdon, go with the king;
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And take with you free power to ratify,
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Augment, or alter, as your wisdoms best
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Shall see advantageable for our dignity,
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Any thing in or out of our demands,
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And we'll consign thereto. Will you, fair sister,
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Go with the princes, or stay here with us?
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QUEEN ISABEL
Our gracious brother, I will go with them:
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Haply a woman's voice may do some good,
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When articles too nicely urged be stood on.
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KING HENRY V
Yet leave our cousin Katharine here with us:
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She is our capital demand, comprised
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Within the fore-rank of our articles.
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QUEEN ISABEL
She hath good leave.
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Exeunt all except HENRY, KATHARINE, and ALICE

KING HENRY V
Fair Katharine, and most fair,
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Will you vouchsafe to teach a soldier terms
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Such as will enter at a lady's ear
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And plead his love-suit to her gentle heart?
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KATHARINE
Your majesty shall mock at me; I cannot speak your England.
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KING HENRY V
O fair Katharine, if you will love me soundly with
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your French heart, I will be glad to hear you
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confess it brokenly with your English tongue. Do
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you like me, Kate?
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KATHARINE
Pardonnez-moi, I cannot tell vat is 'like me.'
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KING HENRY V
An angel is like you, Kate, and you are like an angel.
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KATHARINE
Que dit-il? que je suis semblable a les anges?
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ALICE
Oui, vraiment, sauf votre grace, ainsi dit-il.
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KING HENRY V
I said so, dear Katharine; and I must not blush to
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affirm it.
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KATHARINE
O bon Dieu! les langues des hommes sont pleines de
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tromperies.
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KING HENRY V
What says she, fair one? that the tongues of men
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are full of deceits?
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ALICE
Oui, dat de tongues of de mans is be full of
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deceits: dat is de princess.
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KING HENRY V
The princess is the better Englishwoman. I' faith,
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Kate, my wooing is fit for thy understanding: I am
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glad thou canst speak no better English; for, if
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thou couldst, thou wouldst find me such a plain king
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that thou wouldst think I had sold my farm to buy my
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crown. I know no ways to mince it in love, but
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directly to say 'I love you:' then if you urge me
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farther than to say 'do you in faith?' I wear out
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my suit. Give me your answer; i' faith, do: and so
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clap hands and a bargain: how say you, lady?
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KATHARINE
Sauf votre honneur, me understand vell.
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KING HENRY V
Marry, if you would put me to verses or to dance for
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your sake, Kate, why you undid me: for the one, I
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have neither words nor measure, and for the other, I
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have no strength in measure, yet a reasonable
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measure in strength. If I could win a lady at
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leap-frog, or by vaulting into my saddle with my
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armour on my back, under the correction of bragging
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be it spoken. I should quickly leap into a wife.
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Or if I might buffet for my love, or bound my horse
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for her favours, I could lay on like a butcher and
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sit like a jack-an-apes, never off. But, before God,
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Kate, I cannot look greenly nor gasp out my
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eloquence, nor I have no cunning in protestation;
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only downright oaths, which I never use till urged,
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nor never break for urging. If thou canst love a
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fellow of this temper, Kate, whose face is not worth
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sun-burning, that never looks in his glass for love
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of any thing he sees there, let thine eye be thy
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cook. I speak to thee plain soldier: If thou canst
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love me for this, take me: if not, to say to thee
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that I shall die, is true; but for thy love, by the
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Lord, no; yet I love thee too. And while thou
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livest, dear Kate, take a fellow of plain and
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uncoined constancy; for he perforce must do thee
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right, because he hath not the gift to woo in other
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places: for these fellows of infinite tongue, that
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can rhyme themselves into ladies' favours, they do
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always reason themselves out again. What! a
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speaker is but a prater; a rhyme is but a ballad. A
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good leg will fall; a straight back will stoop; a
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black beard will turn white; a curled pate will grow
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bald; a fair face will wither; a full eye will wax
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hollow: but a good heart, Kate, is the sun and the
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moon; or, rather, the sun, and not the moon; for it
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shines bright and never changes, but keeps his
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course truly. If thou would have such a one, take
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me; and take me, take a soldier; take a soldier,
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take a king. And what sayest thou then to my love?
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speak, my fair, and fairly, I pray thee.
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KATHARINE
Is it possible dat I sould love de enemy of France?
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KING HENRY V
No; it is not possible you should love the enemy of
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France, Kate: but, in loving me, you should love
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the friend of France; for I love France so well that
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I will not part with a village of it; I will have it
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all mine: and, Kate, when France is mine and I am
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yours, then yours is France and you are mine.
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KATHARINE
I cannot tell vat is dat.
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KING HENRY V
No, Kate? I will tell thee in French; which I am
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sure will hang upon my tongue like a new-married
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wife about her husband's neck, hardly to be shook
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off. Je quand sur le possession de France, et quand
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vous avez le possession de moi,--let me see, what
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then? Saint Denis be my speed!--donc votre est
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France et vous etes mienne. It is as easy for me,
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Kate, to conquer the kingdom as to speak so much
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more French: I shall never move thee in French,
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unless it be to laugh at me.
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KATHARINE
Sauf votre honneur, le Francois que vous parlez, il
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est meilleur que l'Anglois lequel je parle.
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KING HENRY V
No, faith, is't not, Kate: but thy speaking of my
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tongue, and I thine, most truly-falsely, must needs
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be granted to be much at one. But, Kate, dost thou
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understand thus much English, canst thou love me?
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KATHARINE
I cannot tell.
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KING HENRY V
Can any of your neighbours tell, Kate? I'll ask
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them. Come, I know thou lovest me: and at night,
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when you come into your closet, you'll question this
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gentlewoman about me; and I know, Kate, you will to
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her dispraise those parts in me that you love with
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your heart: but, good Kate, mock me mercifully; the
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rather, gentle princess, because I love thee
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cruelly. If ever thou beest mine, Kate, as I have a
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saving faith within me tells me thou shalt, I get
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thee with scambling, and thou must therefore needs
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prove a good soldier-breeder: shall not thou and I,
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between Saint Denis and Saint George, compound a
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boy, half French, half English, that shall go to
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Constantinople and take the Turk by the beard?
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shall we not? what sayest thou, my fair
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flower-de-luce?
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KATHARINE
I do not know dat
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KING HENRY V
No; 'tis hereafter to know, but now to promise: do
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but now promise, Kate, you will endeavour for your
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French part of such a boy; and for my English moiety
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take the word of a king and a bachelor. How answer
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you, la plus belle Katharine du monde, mon tres cher
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et devin deesse?
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KATHARINE
Your majestee ave fausse French enough to deceive de
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most sage demoiselle dat is en France.
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KING HENRY V
Now, fie upon my false French! By mine honour, in
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true English, I love thee, Kate: by which honour I
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dare not swear thou lovest me; yet my blood begins to
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flatter me that thou dost, notwithstanding the poor
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and untempering effect of my visage. Now, beshrew
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my father's ambition! he was thinking of civil wars
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when he got me: therefore was I created with a
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stubborn outside, with an aspect of iron, that, when
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I come to woo ladies, I fright them. But, in faith,
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Kate, the elder I wax, the better I shall appear:
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my comfort is, that old age, that ill layer up of
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beauty, can do no more, spoil upon my face: thou
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hast me, if thou hast me, at the worst; and thou
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shalt wear me, if thou wear me, better and better:
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and therefore tell me, most fair Katharine, will you
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have me? Put off your maiden blushes; avouch the
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thoughts of your heart with the looks of an empress;
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take me by the hand, and say 'Harry of England I am
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thine:' which word thou shalt no sooner bless mine
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ear withal, but I will tell thee aloud 'England is
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thine, Ireland is thine, France is thine, and Harry
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Plantagenet is thine;' who though I speak it before
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his face, if he be not fellow with the best king,
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thou shalt find the best king of good fellows.
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Come, your answer in broken music; for thy voice is
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music and thy English broken; therefore, queen of
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all, Katharine, break thy mind to me in broken
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English; wilt thou have me?
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KATHARINE
Dat is as it sall please de roi mon pere.
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KING HENRY V
Nay, it will please him well, Kate it shall please
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him, Kate.
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KATHARINE
Den it sall also content me.
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KING HENRY V
Upon that I kiss your hand, and I call you my queen.
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KATHARINE
Laissez, mon seigneur, laissez, laissez: ma foi, je
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ne veux point que vous abaissiez votre grandeur en
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baisant la main d'une de votre seigeurie indigne
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serviteur; excusez-moi, je vous supplie, mon
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tres-puissant seigneur.
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KING HENRY V
Then I will kiss your lips, Kate.
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KATHARINE
Les dames et demoiselles pour etre baisees devant
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leur noces, il n'est pas la coutume de France.
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KING HENRY V
Madam my interpreter, what says she?
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ALICE
Dat it is not be de fashion pour les ladies of
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France,--I cannot tell vat is baiser en Anglish.
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KING HENRY V
To kiss.
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ALICE
Your majesty entendre bettre que moi.
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KING HENRY V
It is not a fashion for the maids in France to kiss
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before they are married, would she say?
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ALICE
Oui, vraiment.
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KING HENRY V
O Kate, nice customs curtsy to great kings. Dear
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Kate, you and I cannot be confined within the weak
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list of a country's fashion: we are the makers of
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manners, Kate; and the liberty that follows our
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places stops the mouth of all find-faults; as I will
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do yours, for upholding the nice fashion of your
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country in denying me a kiss: therefore, patiently
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and yielding.
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You have witchcraft in your lips, Kate: there is
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more eloquence in a sugar touch of them than in the
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tongues of the French council; and they should
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sooner persuade Harry of England than a general
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petition of monarchs. Here comes your father.
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Re-enter the FRENCH KING and his QUEEN, BURGUNDY, and other Lords

BURGUNDY
God save your majesty! my royal cousin, teach you
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our princess English?
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KING HENRY V
I would have her learn, my fair cousin, how
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perfectly I love her; and that is good English.
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BURGUNDY
Is she not apt?
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KING HENRY V
Our tongue is rough, coz, and my condition is not
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smooth; so that, having neither the voice nor the
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heart of flattery about me, I cannot so conjure up
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the spirit of love in her, that he will appear in
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his true likeness.
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BURGUNDY
Pardon the frankness of my mirth, if I answer you
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for that. If you would conjure in her, you must
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make a circle; if conjure up love in her in his true
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likeness, he must appear naked and blind. Can you
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blame her then, being a maid yet rosed over with the
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virgin crimson of modesty, if she deny the
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appearance of a naked blind boy in her naked seeing
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self? It were, my lord, a hard condition for a maid
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to consign to.
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KING HENRY V
Yet they do wink and yield, as love is blind and enforces.
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BURGUNDY
They are then excused, my lord, when they see not
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what they do.
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KING HENRY V
Then, good my lord, teach your cousin to consent winking.
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BURGUNDY
I will wink on her to consent, my lord, if you will
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teach her to know my meaning: for maids, well
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summered and warm kept, are like flies at
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Bartholomew-tide, blind, though they have their
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eyes; and then they will endure handling, which
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before would not abide looking on.
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KING HENRY V
This moral ties me over to time and a hot summer;
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and so I shall catch the fly, your cousin, in the
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latter end and she must be blind too.
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BURGUNDY
As love is, my lord, before it loves.
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KING HENRY V
It is so: and you may, some of you, thank love for
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my blindness, who cannot see many a fair French city
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for one fair French maid that stands in my way.
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FRENCH KING
Yes, my lord, you see them perspectively, the cities
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turned into a maid; for they are all girdled with
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maiden walls that war hath never entered.
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KING HENRY V
Shall Kate be my wife?
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FRENCH KING
So please you.
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KING HENRY V
I am content; so the maiden cities you talk of may
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wait on her: so the maid that stood in the way for
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my wish shall show me the way to my will.
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FRENCH KING
We have consented to all terms of reason.
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KING HENRY V
Is't so, my lords of England?
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WESTMORELAND
The king hath granted every article:
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His daughter first, and then in sequel all,
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According to their firm proposed natures.
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EXETER
Only he hath not yet subscribed this:
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Where your majesty demands, that the King of France,
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having any occasion to write for matter of grant,
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shall name your highness in this form and with this
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addition in French, Notre trescher fils Henri, Roi
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d'Angleterre, Heritier de France; and thus in
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Latin, Praeclarissimus filius noster Henricus, Rex
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Angliae, et Haeres Franciae.
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FRENCH KING
Nor this I have not, brother, so denied,
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But your request shall make me let it pass.
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KING HENRY V
I pray you then, in love and dear alliance,
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Let that one article rank with the rest;
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And thereupon give me your daughter.
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FRENCH KING
Take her, fair son, and from her blood raise up
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Issue to me; that the contending kingdoms
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Of France and England, whose very shores look pale
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With envy of each other's happiness,
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May cease their hatred, and this dear conjunction
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Plant neighbourhood and Christian-like accord
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In their sweet bosoms, that never war advance
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His bleeding sword 'twixt England and fair France.
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ALL

KING HENRY V
Now, welcome, Kate: and bear me witness all,
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That here I kiss her as my sovereign queen.
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QUEEN ISABEL
God, the best maker of all marriages,
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Combine your hearts in one, your realms in one!
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As man and wife, being two, are one in love,
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So be there 'twixt your kingdoms such a spousal,
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That never may ill office, or fell jealousy,
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Which troubles oft the bed of blessed marriage,
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Thrust in between the paction of these kingdoms,
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To make divorce of their incorporate league;
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That English may as French, French Englishmen,
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Receive each other. God speak this Amen!
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ALL

KING HENRY V
Prepare we for our marriage--on which day,
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My Lord of Burgundy, we'll take your oath,
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And all the peers', for surety of our leagues.
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Then shall I swear to Kate, and you to me;
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And may our oaths well kept and prosperous be!
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