SCENE VIII. _Before_ KING HENRY'S _pavilion_.[5259]

_Enter_ GOWER _and_ WILLIAMS.

_Will._ I warrant it is to knight you, captain.

_Enter_ FLUELLEN.

_Flu._ God's will and his pleasure, captain, I beseech you

now, come apace to the king: there is more good toward

you peradventure than is in your knowledge to dream of.

_Will._ Sir, know you this glove? 5

_Flu._ Know the glove! I know the glove is a glove.

_Will._ I know this; and thus I challenge it.

[_Strikes him._

_Flu._ 'Sblood! an arrant traitor as any is in the universal[5260]

world, or in France, or in England![5261]

_Gow._ How now, sir! you villain! 10

_Will._ Do you think I'll be forsworn?

_Flu._ Stand away, Captain Gower; I will give treason

his payment into plows, I warrant you.[5262]

_Will._ I am no traitor.

_Flu._ That's a lie in thy throat. I charge you in his 15

majesty's name, apprehend him: he's a friend of the Duke

Alençon's.

_Enter_ WARWICK _and_ GLOUCESTER.

_War._ How now, how now! what's the matter?

_Flu._ My Lord of Warwick, here is--praised be God for

it!--a most contagious treason come to light, look you, as 20

you shall desire in a summer's day. Here is his majesty.[5263]

_Enter_ KING HENRY _and_ EXETER.

_K. Hen._ How now! what's the matter?

_Flu._ My liege, here is a villain and a traitor, that, look

your grace, has struck the glove which your majesty is

take out of the helmet of Alençon. 25

_Will._ My liege, this was my glove; here is the fellow

of it; and he that I gave it to in change promised to wear

it in his cap: I promised to strike him, if he did: I met

this man with my glove in his cap, and I have been as[5264]

good as my word. 30

_Flu._ Your majesty hear now, saving your majesty's

manhood, what an arrant, rascally, beggarly, lousy knave

it is: I hope your majesty is pear me testimony and witness,[5265]

and will avouchment, that this is the glove of Alençon,[5265]

that your majesty is give me; in your conscience, now? 35

_K. Hen._ Give me thy glove, soldier: look, here is the[5266][5267]

fellow of it.[5266]

'Twas I, indeed, thou promised'st to strike;[5268][5269]

And thou hast given me most bitter terms.[5268]

_Flu._ An please your majesty, let his neck answer for[5270] 40

it, if there is any martial law in the world.

_K. Hen._ How canst thou make me satisfaction?

_Will._ All offences, my lord, come from the heart:[5271]

never came any from mine that might offend your majesty.

_K. Hen._ It was ourself thou didst abuse. 45

_Will._ Your majesty came not like yourself: you appeared

to me but as a common man; witness the night, your

garments, your lowliness; and what your highness suffered

under that shape, I beseech you take it for your own fault[5272]

and not mine: for had you been as I took you for, I made[5273] 50

no offence; therefore, I beseech your highness, pardon me.

_K. Hen._ Here, uncle Exeter, fill this glove with crowns,

And give it to this fellow. Keep it, fellow;[5274]

And wear it for an honour in thy cap

Till I do challenge it. Give him the crowns: 55

And, captain, you must needs be friends with him.

_Flu._ By this day and this light, the fellow has mettle

enough in his belly. Hold, there is twelve pence for you;[5275]

and I pray you to serve Got, and keep you out of prawls,

and prabbles, and quarrels, and dissensions, and, I warrant 60

you, it is the better for you.

_Will._ I will none of your money.

_Flu._ It is with a good will; I can tell you, it will serve

you to mend your shoes: come, wherefore should you be

so pashful? your shoes is not so good: 'tis a good silling, 65

I warrant you, or I will change it.

_Enter an_ English Herald.[5276]

_K. Hen._ Now, herald, are the dead number'd?[5277]

_Her._ Here is the number of the slaughter'd French.[5278]

_K. Hen._ What prisoners of good sort are taken, uncle?

_Exe._ Charles Duke of Orleans, nephew to the king; 70

John Duke of Bourbon, and Lord Bouciqualt:[5279]

Of other lords and barons, knights and squires,

Full fifteen hundred, besides common men.

_K. Hen._ This note doth tell me of ten thousand French

That in the field lie slain: of princes, in this number,[5280] 75

And nobles bearing banners, there lie dead

One hundred twenty six: added to these,

Of knights, esquires, and gallant gentlemen,

Eight thousand and four hundred; of the which,

Five hundred were but yesterday dubb'd knights: 80

So that, in these ten thousand they have lost,

There are but sixteen hundred mercenaries;

The rest are princes, barons, lords, knights, squires,

And gentlemen of blood and quality.

The names of those their nobles that lie dead: 85

Charles Delabreth, high constable of France;

Jaques of Chatillon, admiral of France;[5281]

The master of the cross-bows, Lord Rambures;

Great Master of France, the brave Sir Guichard Dolphin,

John Duke of Alençon, Anthony Duke of Brabant,[5282] 90

The brother to the Duke of Burgundy,

And Edward Duke of Bar: of lusty earls,

Grandpré and Roussi, Fauconberg and Foix,[5283]

Beaumont and Marie, Vaudemont and Lestrale.[5284]

Here was a royal fellowship of death! 95

Where is the number of our English dead?

[_Herald shews him another paper._[5285]

Edward the Duke of York, the Earl of Suffolk,[5286]

Sir Richard Ketly, Davy Gam, esquire:[5286]

None else of name; and of all other men[5286]

But five and twenty. O God, thy arm was here;[5286][5287] 100

And not to us, but to thy arm alone,

Ascribe we all! When, without stratagem,

But in plain shock and even play of battle,

Was ever known so great and little loss[5288]

On one part and on th' other? Take it, God,[5288] 105

For it is none but thine![5289]

_Exe._ 'Tis wonderful!

_K. Hen._ Come, go we in procession to the village:[5290]

And be it death proclaimed through our host

To boast of this or take that praise from God

Which is his only. 110

_Flu._ Is it not lawful, an please your majesty, to tell[5291]

how many is killed?

_K. Hen._ Yes, captain; but with this acknowledgement,

That God fought for us.

_Flu._ Yes, my conscience, he did us great good. 115

_K. Hen._ Do we all holy rites;

Let there be sung 'Non nobis' and 'Te Deum;'

The dead with charity enclosed in clay:[5292]

And then to Calais; and to England then;[5293]

Where ne'er from France arrived more happy men.[5294] 120

[_Exeunt._

FOOTNOTES:

[5026] ACT IV. PROLOGUE.] Actus Tertius. Ff. ACT III. SCENE I. Rowe.

ACT IV. SCENE I. Pope. om. Theobald.

[5027] _And ... name._] Steevens (Tyrwhitt conj.). _And ... nam’d,_ Ff.

_And (the ... morning nam'd)_ Pope. _And the ... morning's nam’d._

Hanmer.

[5028] _Do_] _For_ Hanmer.

[5029] _cripple tardy-gaited_] _creeple-tardy-gated_ Ff.

[5030] _away_] om. Pope.

[5031] _Investing_] _In wasted_ Hanmer. _Invest in_ Warburton. _In

fasting_ Heath conj. _Infesting,_ Becket conj. _Inverting_ Jackson

conj. _Infestive_ Staunton conj.

_Investing ... coats_] _And war-worn coats, investing lank-lean

cheeks_ Capell.

[5032] _Presenteth_] Hanmer. _Presented_ Ff.

[5033] _O now, who will behold_] _Who now beholds_ Pope.

[5034] _his_] _this_ F₄.

[5035] _fear, that_] Ff. _fear. Then,_ Theobald. See note (XV).

[5036] _night_] _fight_ Staunton conj.

[5037] SCENE I.] Hanmer. SCENE II. Pope.

The English ...] Theobald. King Henry] the King Ff.

Bedford] om. Johnson.

[5038] _dress_] _'dress_ Malone.

[5039] _pains_] _paines_ F₁. _paine_ F₂. _pain_ F₃ F₄.

[5040] _the spirit is_] _is the spirit_ Anon. conj.

[5041] _legerity_] _celerity_ F₃ F₄.

[5042] [Exeunt all ...] Exeunt. Ff.

[5043] SCENE III. Pope. SCENE II. Hanmer.

_Qui va lá?_] Rowe. _Che vous la?_ Ff.

[5044] _Discuss ... popular?_] As verse first by Pope. As prose in Ff.

[5045] _Then_] _Why, then_ S. Walker conj.

[5046] _The king's ... name?_] As verse first in Pope. As prose in Ff.

[5047] _an imp_] _and eke an imp_ Keightley conj.

[5048] _heart-string_] _my heart-string_ Pope. _my heart-strings_ (Qq)

Capell.

[5049] _What is_] _What's_ Pope.

[5050] _Tell ... day_] As in Pope. As prose in Ff.

[5051] _Davy's_] _David's_ Rowe (ed. 2).

[5052] [Manet King. Ff.

Enter ...] Ff. Enter ... meeting. Capell.

[5053] _lower_] (Q₃) Malone. _fewer_ Ff. _lewer_ (Q₁ Q₂).

[5054] _sobriety_] _sobrieties_ Pope.

[5055] [Exeunt ...] Exeunt. Rowe. Exit. Ff.

[5056] SCENE IV. Pope. SCENE III. Hanmer.

[5057] _Thomas_] Pope ed. 2 (Theobald). _John_ Ff.

[5058] _it is not_] _is it_ Rowe.

[5059] _Thames_] Ff. _the Thames_ (Qq) Rowe.

[5060] _I would_] _would_ F₂ F₃ F₄.

[5061] _a many_] _many_ Pope.

[5062] Bates.] Court. Malone conj.

[5063] _in a_] F₁. _in_ F₂ F₃ F₄.

[5064] _a battle_] _a Battaile_ F₁. _Battaile_ F₂. _Battel_ F₃ F₄.

[5065] _whom_] F₂ F₃ F₄. _who_ F₁.

[5066] _sinfully miscarry upon the sea_] _fall into some lewd action

and miscarry_ Pope.

[5067] _purpose_] _crave_ Pope.

[5068] _before-breach_] Capell. _before breach_ Ff. _former breach_

Pope.

[5069] _now the king's quarrel_] _the king's quarrell now_ Pope.

[5070] _do_] om. F₄.

[5071] _mote_] Malone. _moth_ Ff. _moath_ (Qq).

[5072] _blessedly lost_] _well spent_ (Qq) Pope.

[5073] _not sin_] _sin not_ Long MS.

[5074] Will.] Court, or Bates. Capell conj.

_upon_] _is upon_ F₄.

[5075] _You_] _'Mass, you'll_ (Qq) Malone.

[5076] _and private_] _private_ F₁ F₄.

[5077] _take_] _give_ F₃ F₄.

[5078] _Indeed ... clipper_] Put in the margin by Pope.

[5079] [Exeunt ...] Johnson. Exeunt ... F₂ F₃ F₄ (after line 210).

Exit ... F₁ (after line 210).

[5080] SCENE V. Pope. SCENE IV. Hanmer.

_Upon the king!_] _Upon the King! upon the King!_ (ending the line at

_us_) Anon. conj.

[5081] _Upon ... enjoy!_] Edd. In Ff the lines end _soules, ...

wives, ... king ... all ... greatnesse ... sence ... wringing ...

neglect, ... enjoy?_ Rowe ends the lines 215-219 _souls, ... and ...

all ... greatness._

[5082] _We_] _He_ F₃ F₄.

[5083] _Twin-born_] and _twin-bern_ Pope.

_subject_] _Subjected_ Hanmer, ending the line at _fool_.

_to_] _unto_ Keightley conj.

_the_] om. Pope.

[5084] _heart's-ease_] _heart-ease_ F₃ F₄.

[5085] _save general ceremony_] Omitted by Pope, who reads _That

private ... save ceremony_ as two lines, the first ending _kings_.

[5086] Lettsom conjectures that these lines should be transposed.

[5087] _show_] _tell_ Hanmer.

[5088] _What is ... adoration?_] Knight. _What? is thy Soule of

Odoration_ F₁. _What? is thy Soule of Adoration?_ F₂ F₃ F₄ (_soul_ F₃

F₄). _What!... adoration?_ Rowe. _What is thy toll, O adoration?_

Theobald (Warburton). _What is thy shew of adoration?_ Hanmer. _What is

thy soul, O adoration?_ Johnson. _What is this coyl of adoration_ Heath

conj. _What is thy roul of adoration?_ Capell. _What is the soul of

adoration?_ Malone. _What is thy soulless adoration?_ Lettsom conj.

_What is thy soul but adulation?_ Collier (Collier MS.). _What is thy

source of adoration?_ Keightley conj.

[5089] _Think'st_] Rowe. _Thinks_ Ff.

[5090] _Will_] _Wilt_ F₂.

[5091] _That_] _Thou_ F₃ F₄.

[5092] _these, thrice-gorgeous ceremony_] _these, thrice-gorgeous

ceremonie_ F₁. _these, thrice-gorgeous ceremonies_ F₂ F₃ F₄. _these

thrice-gorgeous ceremonies_ Rowe.

[5093] _wretched_] _wretched'st_ S. Walker conj.

[5094] _distressful_] _distasteful_ Collier MS. _disrestful_ Staunton

conj.

[5095] _Never_] _He never_ Keightley conj.

[5096] _a lackey_] _his lackey_ Seward conj.

[5097] _Hyperion_] _Hiperio_ F₁.

[5098] _Had_] _Hath_ Collier MS.

[5099] SCENE VI. Pope. SCENE V. Hanmer.

[5100] _Good ... thee._] Arranged as by Pope. As two lines in Ff, the

first ending _together_.

[5101] _reckoning, if ... numbers Pluck ... them._] Steevens

(Tyrwhitt conj.). _reck'ning of ... numbers: Pluck ... them._ Ff.

_reck'ning of th' opposed numbers Which stand before them._ Pope from

(Qq). _reck'ning; lest th' opposed numbers Pluck ... them._ Theobald.

_reckoning; oft ... them._ Jackson conj. _reckoning, or ... them._

Anon. conj. See note (XVI).

[5102] _Pluck ... them. Not ... Lord,_] _Pluck their hearts from them

not to day, O Lord._ Knight.

[5103] _to-day, think_] _to-day. Think_ Knight.

[5104] _Toward ... do_] Arranged as by Pope. In Ff the lines end

_blood: ... chauntries, ... still ... doe_.

[5105] _Since_] _Save_ Theobald conj.

_all_] _call_ Theobald (Warburton).

[5106] _Ay_] _Ay, ay_ Anon. conj.

[5107] _Ay; I know_] _I; I know_ F₁ F₂. _I know_ F₃ F₄. Glo. _Ay._ K.

Hen. _I know_ Anon. conj.

[5108] _friends_] (Qq) Theobald. _friend_ Ff.

[5109] SCENE II.] Capell. SCENE VII. Pope. SCENE VI. Hanmer.

The French camp.] Theobald. and others.] Capell. and Beaumont. Ff.

[5110] _armour; up,_] _armour, up_ F₂ F₃ F₄. _armour up,_ F₁.

[5111] _Montez ... peers_] Put in the margin by Pope.

[5112] _Montez à_] Steevens (Capell conj.). _Monte_ Ff. _Montez_

Theobald. _Mon_ Heath conj.

_varlet_] _verlot_ F₁. _valet_ F₂ F₃ F₄.

[5113] _Via!_] _Via_ Ff. _Voyer_ Rowe. _Voyez!_ Heath conj.

_les eaux_] Theobald. _les ewes_ Ff. _les cieux_ Rowe. _l'eau_ Capell.

_la terre_] Rowe. _terre_ Ff.

[5114] _Rien puis? l'air_] Malone. _Rien puis! l'air_ Theobald. _Rien

puis le air_ Ff. _L'air et le feu--Rien puis?_ Johnson conj. _Rien

plus! l'air_ Capell. _Bien--puis l'air_ Heath conj.

_le feu_] Rowe. _feu_ Ff.

[5115] _Ciel_] Theobald. _Cein_ F₁ F₂. _Cien_ F₃ F₄.

[5116] _dout_] Rowe (ed. 2). _d'out_ Rowe (ed. 1). _doubt_ Ff. _daunt_

Pope. _out_ Jackson conj. _daub_ Keightley and Bullock conj. _paint_

Anon. conj.

[5117] _you_] _yon,_ Anon. conj.

[5118] _curtle-axe_] _cuttle-ax_ Pope. _coutelas_ Hanmer.

[5119] _let us_] _let's_ Pope.

[5120] _'gainst_] F₂ F₃ F₄. _against_ F₁.

_exceptions_] F₁ F₂. _exception_ F₃ F₄.

[5121] _enow_] _enough_ Capell.

[5122] _tucket sonance_] Johnson. _tucket-sonnance_] Collier. _Tucket

Sonuance_ Ff. _tucket-sonaunce_ Knight.

[5123] _hand_] _hands_ Capell conj.

[5124] _dropping the hides_] F₁. _drooping the hide_ F₂ F₃ F₄.

[5125] _pale dull_] _palled_ Capell. _pull’d dull_ Rann.

_gimmal_] Johnson. _Iymold_ Ff. _grimmal_ Rann.

[5126] _them, all_] Rowe. _them all,_ Ff.

[5127] _To ...battle_] _The life of such a battle to demonstrate_

Hanmer.

[5128] _lifeless_] Capell. _livelesse_ F₁ F₂ F₃. _liveless_ F₄.

[5129] _They have....death_] As two lines in Ff. _They’ve ..._ Pope,

reading as one line.

[5130] Arranged as in Rowe. As two lines in Ff, the first ending

_guard: on_.

[5131] _guidon:_] Anon, apud Rann conj. _Guard: on_ Ff. See note (XVII).

[5132] SCENE III.] Capell. SCENE VIII. Pope. SCENE VII. Hanmer.

The English camp.] Theobald.

[5133] _all are_] _are all_ Rowe.

[5134] _be wi’_] Rowe. _buy’_ Ff.

[5135] _And yet ... valour_] These lines follow line 11, _go with

thee:_ in Ff. Transposed by Theobald (Thirlby conj.). See note (XVIII).

[5136] _framed_] _fram'd_ F₁. _fam'd_ F₂ F₃ F₄. _made_ (Qq) Pope.

[Exit Salisbury.] Rowe. om. Ff.

[5137] _Westmoreland?_] Rowe. _Westmerland._ Ff.

[5138] _enow_] _enough_ Capell.

[5139] _Jove_] _Heaven_ Malone conj.

_for_] _of_ Pope.

[5140] _coz_] _couze_ Ff. _lord_ Pope.

[5141] _hope_] _hopes_ Pope.

_O, do not wish_] _Don't wish_ Pope. _Wish not_ Ritson conj.

[5142] _shall live....and see_] Pope. _shall see ...and live_ Ff.

_outlives ...and sees_ (Qq) Warburton. _shall see ...and live to_

Keightley conj.

[5143] _neighbours_] _friends_ (Qq) Capell.

[5144] _And ... day._] (Qq) Malone. Omitted in Ff.

[5145] _yet all shall be forgot, But he’ll_] Malone. _yet all shall

be forgot: But hee'le_ F₁. _yet all shall not be forgot But hee'le_

F₂ F₃ F₄. _yet shall not all forget But they'll_ Pope. _all shall

not be forgot; But he’ll_ Capell. _yet all shall be forgot, But

they’ll_ Steevens (1778). _yea, all shall be forgot; But he'll_

Malone conj.

[5146] _he_] _they_ Pope.

[5147] _his mouth_] Ff. _their mouths_ (Qq) Malone. _their mouth_ Pope.

See note (XIX).

[5148] _whiles_] _while_ Pope.

[5149] _Crispin's_] _Crispian's_ Pope.

Re-enter S.] Enter S. Ff.

[5150] _battles_] _battle_ Anon. conj.

[5151] _coz_] _couze_ Ff. _cousin_ (Qq) Pope.

[5152] _could fight this royal battle_] _might fight this battle out_

(Qq) Capell.

[5153] _five_] _twelve_ Hamner. _me fifteen_ Capell conj.

[5154] SCENE IX. Pope. SCENE VIII. Hanmer.

[5155] _Besides_] _Thus_ Pope.

[5156] _A_] _And_ (Q₃) Pope.

[5157] _Mark ...mortality_] Put in the margin by Pope.

[5158] _abounding_] Ff. _abundant_ (Qq). _a bounding_ Theobald.

_rebounding_ Knight conj.

[5159] _bullet's_] Hanmer. _bullets_ Ff.

_grazing_] _grasing_ F₂ F₃ F₄. _crasing_ F₁.

[5160] _relapse_] _reliques_ Johnson conj. _relays_ Jackson conj.

_reflex_ Collier MS.

_of mortality_] Omitted by Capell.

[5161] _or_] _for_ Hanmer.

[5162] _this_] om. Pope.

[5163] _As_] _And_ Rowe (ed. 2).

[5164] _Will ... labour_] As two lines in Ff. As one in Pope, omitting

_thou_.

[5165] _'em_] _um_ F₁ F₂ F₃. _'um_ F₄.

_them_] _to them_ Steevens.

[5166] _yield_] _leave_ Pope.

[5167] _I fear ... ransom._] Omitted by Pope.

_thou'lt ... again_] _thou wilt ... here_ Collier (Collier MS.).

_thou'lt ... for ransom_] Theobald. _thou wilt ... for a ransome_ Ff.

_thou wilt once more come for a ransom_ Edd. conj.

[5168] SCENE IV.] Capell. SCENE X. Pope. SCENE IX. Hanmer.

The ... battle.] Theobald.

[5169] _êtes_] _estes le_ Ff.

[5170] _Qualtitie_] F₁. _Qualtity_ F₂ F₃. _Quality_ F₄.

_calmie custure me_] F₁. _cality--consture me_ Warburton.

_cality!--construe me_ Capell. _call you me?--Construe me_ Steevens

(Edwards conj.). _calmly:--Construe me_ Rann (Ritson conj.). _Calen, o

custure me_ Malone. _Callino, castore me_ Boswell.

[5171] _O, Signieur ... ransom_] As in Pope. As prose in Ff.

[5172] _fox_] _faulchion_ Johnson conj.

[5173] _Moy ... blood_] As in Johnson. As prose in Ff.

[5174] _Or_] Hanmer (Theobald conj.). _For_ Ff.

_rim_] Capell. _rym_ F₄. _rymme_ F₁ F₂ F₃. _ransom_ Warburton (Theobald

conj.). _rheum_ Steevens conj. _ryno_ Mason conj. _rime_ Knight conj.

_at_] _of_ Warburton conj.

[5175] _Brass ... brass?_] As in Johnson. As prose in Ff. As two lines

in Pope, ending _cur ... brass_.

[5176] _Say'st ... name_] As in Pope. As prose in Ff.

[5177] _à cette heure_] Theobald. _asture_ Ff. _à l'heure_ Anon. conj.

[5178] _Owy ... sword_] Edd. As verse first by Johnson, ending first

line at _pesant_. As prose in Ff.

[5179] _give me_] _give unto me_ Keightley conj.

[5180] _suis_] Theobald. _suis le_ Ff.

[5181] _Tell ... take_] As in Johnson. As prose in Ff.

[5182] _suis tombé_] Theobald. _intombe_ Ff.

[5183] _and he_] F₁. _and_ F₂ F₃ F₄.

[5184] _As I ... show._] As in Pope. As prose in Ff.

[5185] _me!_] _me._ Ff. _me, cur._ (Qq) Pope.

[5186] [Exeunt ...] Pope. om. Ff.

[5187] _full_] F₁. _wofull_ F₂ F₃. _woful_ F₄.

[5188] _saying_] F₁. _song_ F₂ F₃ F₄.

[5189] _that_] om. Pope.

[5190] _and they_] _yet they_ Pope.

[5191] _he_] _they_ Collier MS.

[5192] SCENE V.] Capell. SCENE XI. Pope. SCENE X. Hanmer.

Another part ...] Theobald.

Enter ...] Alarums, &c. Enter D., O., C., B., and divers others. Capell.

[5193] _de_] _du_(Qq). _Dieu_ Ff.

[5194] _Reproach_] _Reproach, reproach_ Capell. _Reproach, contempt_ S.

Walker conj. _Reproach, rebuke_ Anon. conj.

[5195] _Sits ... away_] As in Capell. The lines end _plumes ... away_

in Ff.

[5196] _Let ... again_] Omitted by Pope.

_Let us die in honour: once_] _Let's die in honour: once_ Knight, from

(Qq). _Let us dye in once_ F₁. _Let us flye in once_ F₂ F₃ F₄. _Let

us dye, instant:--once_ Theobald. _Let us die in fight: once_ Malone.

_Let us hie instant: once_ Becket conj. _Let us not fly:--in!--once_

Collier (Collier MS.).

_honour_] _fight_ or _arms_ Mason conj.

[5197] _And he_] _The man_ Pope.

[5198] _by a slave_] (Qq) Pope, _a base slave_ F₁. _by a base slave_

F₂ F₃ F₄.

[5199] _contaminated_] _contamuracke_ (Qq). _contaminate_ Capell.

[5200] _on heaps_] Ff. _in heaps_ (Qq) Steevens. Reed (1803).

Steevens adds from (Qq) _Unto these English or else die with fame._

[5201] _enow_] _enough_ Capell.

[5202] SCENE VI.] Capell. SCENE XII. Pope. SCENE XI. Hanmer.

Enter King Henry....] Capell. Enter the king and his trayne, with

Prisoners. Ff.

[5203] _yet keep the French_] _the French yet keep_ Pope.

[5204] _blood he was_] _bleeding o'er_ (Qq) Pope.

[5205] _Larding_] _Loading_ Collier MS.

[5206] _And_ (Qq) Pope. _He_ Ff.

_dear_ (Qq) Steevens. _my_ Ff.

[5207] _thine keep_] _keep thine_ S. Walker conj.

[5208] _raught_] _gave_ Pope.

[5209] _noble-ending_] _never ending_ (Qq).

[5210] _And all_] _But all_ (Qq) Pope.

[5211] _mistful_] Theobald (Warburton). _mixtful_ Ff.

[5212] [Enter a Messenger who whispers the King. Malone conj.

[5213] _The French ... Then_] Enter a Messenger. Mess. _The French ..._

K. Hen. _Then_ Upton conj.

[5214] _reinforced_] _re-enfor'd_ F₃.

[5215] _Then_] _Bid_ (Qq).

_prisoners_] _prisoner_ (Qq).

[5216] [Exeunt.] Rowe (ed. 2).

[5217] SCENE VII.] Capell. ACTUS QUARTUS. Ff. ACT IV. SCENE I. Rowe.

SCENE XIII. Pope. SCENE XII. Hanmer.

Enter ...] Ff. Alarums continued, after which Enter ... Theobald.

[5218] _offer't; in_] _offert in_ Ff. _desir'd in_ (Qq) Pope.

[5219] _and carried_] _or carried_ Pope.

[5220] _you_] _that you_ Rowe.

[5221] _and there is also moreover_] _there is also moreover_ Rowe (ed.

2). _there is also_ Pope.

[5222] _but 'tis_] Ff. _but it is_ Pope.

_alike_] Ff. _as like_ Rowe.

_is to_] _to_ Rowe.

[5223] _Cleitus_] _Clitus_ (Qq). _Clytus_ Ff.

[5224] _made_] _made an end_ (Qq) Capell.

[5225] _the figures_] Ff. _figures_ Pope.

[5226] _turned_] _is turn_ (Qq) Capell.

[5227] _have forgot_] _am forget_ (Qq) Capell.

[5228] Alarum.] Alarums. Capell.

Enter ...] Capell. Enter King Harry and Burbon with prisoners.

Flourish. Ff.

[5229] SCENE XIV. Pope. SCENE XIII. Hanmer.

[5230] Johnson proposes to place these lines at the beginning of Scene

VI.

[5231] _skirr_] _sker_ Ff.

[5232] _means this, herald_] Steevens. _meanes this herald_ F₁. _meanes

their herald_ F₂. _means their herald_ F₃ F₄. _mean'st thou, herald_

Hanmer.

[5233] _look_]Grant White, (Collier MS.). _book_ Ff.

[5234] _and their_] Malone. _and with_ Ff. _while their_ Pope, _and

the_ Capell.

[5235] _horsemen peer_] _horse appear_ Capell.

[5236] _majesties_] _majesty_ Keightley conj.

[5237] _know_] _know's_ Pope.

[5238] _pless it_] _pless_ F₄.

[5239] _countryman_] _countrymen_ F₁.

[5240] _God_] F₃ F₄. _Good_ F₁ F₂.

_God ... him_] As in Capell. As two lines in Ff.

[5241] [Points to Williams.] Malone. Seeing Williams among the troops.

Capell. Enter Williams. Ff (after _so!_ line 109).

[Exeunt....] Theobald. om. Ff.

[5242] SCENE XV. Pope. SCENE XIV. Hanmer.

[5243] _An't_] Hanmer. _And't_ Ff.

[5244] _alive_] Ff. _a' live_ Capell.

_ever_] _if ever he_ Pope.

[5245] _o' th'_] _a' th'_ Ff.

[5246] _an't_] Pope. _and't_ Ff.

[5247] _ever_] _even_ Warburton.

[5248] _literatured_] _litterature_ Pope.

[5249] _an ... me love_] _an ... love me_ Capell. _and ... me love_ Ff.

_if ... love me_ Pope.

[5250] _doo's_] F₁ F₂. _do's_ F₃. _does_ F₄.

[5251] _aggriefed_] _agreefd_ F₁. _agreev'd_ F₂. _agriev'd_ F₃ F₄.

[5252] _but I would fain_] _I would fain but_ Dyce conj.

[5253] _an_] Pope. _and_ Ff.

[5254] _an_] Theobald. _and_ Ff. _an't_ Delius.

[5255] _his_] _this_ F₃ F₄.

[5256] _will_] _he'll_ Pope.

[5257] _no_] _not_ Rowe.

[5258] _Go_] _Come_ Pope.

[5259] SCENE VIII.] Capell. SCENE XVI. Pope. SCENE XV. Hanmer.

Before ...] Theobald.

[5260] _'Sblood_] _'Sblud_ F₁ F₂. _'Slbud_ F₃. _'Sbud_ F₄.

_any is_] _any es_ F₁ F₂ F₃. _any'_ F₄.

[5261] _or in France_] _in France_ Pope.

[5262] _into_] _in two_ Heath conj. _in_ Capell. _in due_ Steevens conj.

[5263] _Here ..._] Glo. _Here ..._ Anon. conj.

[5264] _have_] _have have_ F₂.

[5265] _testimony and witness, and will avouchment_] _testimonies,

and witnesses, and avouchments_ Pope, from Q₃. _testimony, and

witness, and avouchments_ Capell.

[5266] _Give ... of it_] As in Pope. As two lines in Ff, the first

ending _soldier_.

[5267] _thy_] _my_ Johnson conj.

[5268] As prose in Pope.

[5269] _I_] _me_ Pope.

[5270] _An_] Pope. _And_ Ff.

[5271] _lord_] Ff. _liege_ (Qq) Capell.

[5272] _your own_] _your_ Rowe.

[5273] _made_] _had made_ (Qq).

[5274] _And_] _Add_ F₂.

[5275] _belly_] _body_ Rowe (ed. 2).

[5276] Enter an English Herald.] Malone. Enter Herauld. Ff. Enter a

Herald, and others. Capell.

[5277] SCENE XVII. Pope. SCENE XVI. Hanmer.

_number'd_] _on both sides number'd_ Steevens conj.

[5278] [kneeling, and delivering Papers. Capell.

[5279] _Bouciqualt_] _Bouchiquald_ Ff.

[5280] _That ... slain_] _Slain in the field_ Pope.

[5281] _Jaques of Chatillon_] _Jaques Chatillon_ S. Walker conj.

[5282] _Anthony_] _Anthonie_ F₁. _Anthonio_ F₂ F₃ F₄.

[5283] _Fauconberg_] Capell. _Fauconbridge_ Ff.

_Foix_] Capell. _Foyes_ Ff.

[5284] _Vaudemont_] _Vandemont_ F₁.

[5285] [Herald ...] Capell.

[5286] _Edward ... twenty. O God_] F₁. _Edward ... twenty._ King. _O

God_] F₂ F₃ F₄. Exe. _Edward ... twenty._ K. Henry. _O God_ (Q₂ Q₃)

Pope.

[5287] _five_] _four_ Farmer conj. MS.

[5288] _loss ... other? Take_] Pope _losse?... other, take_ Ff.

[5289] _none but_] _none’s but_ F₄. _only_ (Qq) Pope.

[5290] _we_] _me_ F₁.

[5291] _an_] Pope. _and_ Ff. _and it_ (Qq).

[5292] _enclosed_] _enterred_ (Qq).

[5293] _And_] _We'll_ (Qq) Capell.

[5294] _happy_] _happier_ (Qq) Capell.

ACT V.

PROLOGUE.[5295]

_Enter_ Chorus.

_Chor._ Vouchsafe to those that have not read the story,[5296]

That I may prompt them: and of such as have,[5297]

I humbly pray them to admit the excuse

Of time, of numbers and due course of things,

Which cannot in their huge and proper life 5

Be here presented. Now we bear the king

Toward Calais: grant him there; there seen,[5298]

Heave him away upon your winged thoughts

Athwart the sea. Behold, the English beach

Pales in the flood with men, with wives and boys,[5299] 10

Whose shouts and claps out-voice the deep-mouth'd sea,

Which like a mighty whiffler 'fore the king

Seems to prepare his way: so let him land,

And solemnly see him set on to London.

So swift a pace hath thought that even now 15

You may imagine him upon Blackheath;

Where that his lords desire him to have borne

His bruised helmet and his bended sword

Before him through the city: he forbids it,

Being free from vainness and self-glorious pride; 20

Giving full trophy, signal and ostent

Quite from himself to God. But now behold,

In the quick forge and working-house of thought,

How London doth pour out her citizens!

The mayor and all his brethren in best sort, 25

Like to the senators of the antique Rome,[5300]

With the plebeians swarming at their heels,

Go forth and fetch their conquering Cæsar in:

As, by a lower but loving likelihood,[5301]

Were now the general of our gracious empress, 30

As in good time he may, from Ireland coming,

Bringing rebellion broached on his sword,

How many would the peaceful city quit,

To welcome him! much more, and much more cause,

Did they this Harry. Now in London place him; 35

As yet the lamentation of the French[5302]

Invites the King of England's stay at home;[5303]

The emperor's coming in behalf of France,[5304]

To order peace between them; and omit[5305]

All the occurrences, whatever chanced, 40

Till Harry's back-return again to France:

There must we bring him; and myself have play'd

The interim, by remembering you 'tis past.

Then brook abridgement, and your eyes advance,

After your thoughts, straight back again to France. [_Exit._ 45

SCENE I. _France. The English Camp._[5306]

_Enter_ FLUELLEN _and_ GOWER.

_Gow._ Nay, that's right; but why wear you your leek

to-day? Saint Davy's day is past.[5307]

_Flu._ There is occasions and causes why and wherefore

in all things: I will tell you, asse my friend, Captain Gower:[5308]

the rascally, scald, beggarly, lousy, pragging knave, Pistol, 5

which you and yourself and all the world know to be no[5309]

petter than a fellow, look you now, of no merits, he is

come to me and prings me pread and salt yesterday, look

you, and bid me eat my leek: it was in a place where I

could not breed no contention with him; but I will be so[5310] 10

bold as to wear it in my cap till I see him once again, and

then I will tell him a little piece of my desires.

_Enter_ PISTOL.

_Gow._ Why, here he comes, swelling like a turkey-cock.

_Flu._ 'Tis no matter for his swellings nor his turkey-cocks.[5311]

God pless you, Aunchient Pistol! you scurvy, lousy knave,[5312] 15

God pless you!

_Pist._ Ha! art thou bedlam? dost thou thirst, base Trojan,[5313][5314]

To have me fold up Parca's fatal web?[5313]

Hence! I am qualmish at the smell of leek.[5313]

_Flu._ I peseech you heartily, scurvy, lousy knave, at[5315] 20

my desires, and my requests, and my petitions, to eat, look

you, this leek: because, look you, you do not love it, nor[5316]

your affections and your appetites and your disgestions[5317]

doo's not agree with it, I would desire you to eat it.[5318]

_Pist._ Not for Cadwallader and all his goats. 25

_Flu._ There is one goat for you. [_Strikes him._] Will[5319]

you be so good, scauld knave, as eat it?

_Pist._ Base Trojan, thou shalt die.

_Flu._ You say very true, scauld knave, when God's will

is: I will desire you to live in the mean time, and eat your 30

victuals: come, there is sauce for it. [_Strikes him._] You[5320]

called me yesterday mountain-squire; but I will make you

to-day a squire of low degree. I pray you, fall to: if you[5321]

can mock a leek, you can eat a leek.

_Gow._ Enough, captain: you have astonished him. 35

_Flu._ I say, I will make him eat some part of my leek,

or I will peat his pate four days. Bite, I pray you; it is[5322]

good for your green wound and your ploody coxcomb.

_Pist._ Must I bite?

_Flu._ Yes, certainly, and out of doubt and out of question[5323] 40

too, and ambiguities.

_Pist._ By this leek, I will most horribly revenge: I eat[5324][5325]

and eat, I swear--[5325]

_Flu._ Eat, I pray you: will you have some more sauce

to your leek? there is not enough leek to swear by. 45

_Pist._ Quiet thy cudgel; thou dost see I eat.

_Flu._ Much good do you, scauld knave, heartily. Nay,

pray you, throw none away; the skin is good for your

broken coxcomb. When you take occasions to see leeks

hereafter, I pray you, mock at 'em; that is all.[5326] 50

_Pist._ Good.

_Flu._ Ay, leeks is good: hold you, there is a groat to

heal your pate.

_Pist._ Me a groat!

_Flu._ Yes, verily and in truth, you shall take it; or I 55

have another leek in my pocket, which you shall eat.

_Pist._ I take thy groat in earnest of revenge.

_Flu._ If I owe you any thing, I will pay you in cudgels:

you shall be a woodmonger, and buy nothing of me

but cudgels. God b' wi' you, and keep you, and heal your[5327] 60

pate. [_Exit._

_Pist._ All hell shall stir for this.

_Gow._ Go, go; you are a counterfeit cowardly knave.

Will you mock at an ancient tradition, begun upon an[5328]

honourable respect, and worn as a memorable trophy of 65

predeceased valour and dare not avouch in your deeds

any of your words? I have seen you gleeking and galling

at this gentleman twice or thrice. You thought, because

he could not speak English in the native garb, he could not

therefore handle an English cudgel: you find it otherwise;[5329] 70

and henceforth let a Welsh correction teach you a good

English condition. Fare ye well.[5330] [_Exit._

_Pist._ Doth Fortune play the huswife with me now?[5331]

News have I, that my Doll is dead i' the spital[5331][5332]

Of malady of France;[5331][5333] 75

And there my rendezvous is quite cut off.[5331]

Old I do wax; and from my weary limbs[5331]

Honour is cudgelled. Well, bawd I'll turn,[5331][5334]

And something lean to cutpurse of quick hand.[5331]

To England will I steal, and there I'll steal: 80

And patches will I get unto these cudgell'd scars,[5335]

And swear I got them in the Gallia wars.[5336] [_Exit._

SCENE II. _France. A royal palace._

_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._[5337]

_K. Hen._ Peace to this meeting, wherefore we are met!

Unto our brother France, and to our sister,

Health and fair time of day; joy and good wishes

To our most fair and princely cousin Katharine;

And, as a branch and member of this royalty, 5

By whom this great assembly is contrived,

We do salute you, Duke of Burgundy;[5338]

And, princes French, and peers, health to you all!

_Fr. King._ Right joyous are we to behold your face,

Most worthy brother England; fairly met:[5339] 10

So are you, princes English, every one.

_Q. Isa._ So happy be the issue, brother England,[5340]

Of this good day and of this gracious meeting,

As we are now glad to behold your eyes;

Your eyes, which hitherto have borne in them[5341] 15

Against the French, that met them in their bent,[5341]

The fatal balls of murdering basilisks:

The venom of such looks, we fairly hope,

Have lost their quality, and that this day[5342]

Shall change all griefs and quarrels into love. 20

_K. Hen._ To cry amen to that, thus we appear.

_Q. Isa._ You English princes all, I do salute you.

_Bur._ My duty to you both, on equal love,

Great Kings of France and England! That I have labour'd,[5343]

With all my wits, my pains and strong endeavours, 25

To bring your most imperial majesties

Unto this bar and royal interview,

Your mightiness on both parts best can witness.[5344]

Since then my office hath so far prevail'd

That, face to face and royal eye to eye, 30

You have congreeted, let it not disgrace me,

If I demand, before this royal view,

What rub or what impediment there is,

Why that the naked, poor and mangled Peace,

Dear nurse of arts, plenties and joyful births, 35

Should not in this best garden of the world

Our fertile France, put up her lovely visage?[5345]

Alas, she hath from France too long been chased,

And all her husbandry doth lie on heaps,

Corrupting in its own fertility.[5346] 40

Her vine, the merry cheerer of the heart,

Unpruned dies; her hedges even-pleach'd,[5347]

Like prisoners wildly overgrown with hair,

Put forth disorder'd twigs; her fallow leas

The darnel, hemlock and rank fumitory[5348] 45

Doth root upon, while that the coulter rusts[5349]

That should deracinate such savagery;

The even mead, that erst brought sweetly forth

The freckled cowslip, burnet and green clover,

Wanting the scythe, all uncorrected, rank,[5350] 50

Conceives by idleness and nothing teems

But hateful docks, rough thistles, kecksies, burs,[5351]

Losing both beauty and utility.

And as our vineyards, fallows, meads and hedges,[5352][5353]

Defective in their natures, grow to wildness,[5353][5354] 55

Even so our houses and ourselves and children,

Have lost, or do not learn for want of time,

The sciences that should become our country;

But grow like savages,--as soldiers will[5355]

That nothing do but meditate on blood,-- 60

To swearing and stern looks, diffused attire[5356]

And every thing that seems unnatural,

Which to reduce into our former favour

You are assembled: and my speech entreats

That I may know the let, why gentle Peace 65

Should not expel these inconveniences

And bless us with her former qualities.

_K. Hen._ If, Duke of Burgundy, you would the peace,[5357]

Whose want gives growth to the imperfections

Which you have cited, you must buy that peace 70

With full accord to all our just demands;

Whose tenours and particular effects[5358]

You have enscheduled briefly in your hands.

_Bur._ The king hath heard them; to the which as yet

There is no answer made.

_K. Hen._ Well then the peace, 75

Which you before so urged, lies in his answer.

_Fr. King._ I have but with a cursorary eye[5359]

O'erglanced the articles: pleaseth your grace

To appoint some of your council presently

To sit with us once more, with better heed[5360] 80

To re-survey them, we will suddenly

Pass our accept and peremptory answer.[5361]

_K. Hen._ Brother, we shall. Go, uncle Exeter,

And brother Clarence, and you, brother Gloucester,[5362]

Warwick and Huntingdon, go with the king;[5363] 85

And take with you free power to ratify,

Augment, or alter, as your wisdoms best

Shall see advantageable for our dignity,[5364]

Any thing in or out of our demands;[5365]

And we'll consign thereto. Will you, fair sister, 90

Go with the princes, or stay here with us?

_Q. Isa._ Our gracious brother, I will go with them:

Haply a woman's voice may do some good,[5366]

When articles too nicely urged be stood on.

_K. Hen._ Yet leave our cousin Katharine here with us: 95

She is our capital demand, comprised

Within the fore-rank of our articles.

_Q. Isa._ She hath good leave.

[_Exeunt all except Henry, Katharine, and Alice._[5367]

_K. Hen._ Fair Katharine, and most fair,

Will you vouchsafe to teach a soldier terms

Such as will enter at a lady's ear 100

And plead his love-suit to her gentle heart?

_Kath._ Your majesty shall mock at me; I cannot speak

your England.

_K. Hen._ O fair Katharine, if you will love me soundly

with your French heart, I will be glad to hear you confess it 105

brokenly with your English tongue. Do you like me, Kate?

_Kath._ Pardonnez-moi, I cannot tell vat is 'like me.'[5368]

_K. Hen._ An angel is like you, Kate, and you are like

an angel.

_Kath._ Que dit-il? que je suis semblable à les anges? 110

_Alice._ Oui, vraiment, sauf votre grace, ainsi dit-il.

_K. Hen._ I said so, dear Katharine; and I must not

blush to affirm it.

_Kath._ O bon Dieu! les langues des homines sont

pleines de tromperies. 115

_K. Hen._ What says she, fair one? that the tongues of[5369]

men are full of deceits?

_Alice._ Oui, dat de tongues of de mans is be full of

deceits: dat is de princess.[5370]

_K. Hen._ The princess is the better Englishwoman. I' 120

faith, Kate, my wooing is fit for thy understanding: I am

glad thou canst speak no better English; for, if thou couldst,

thou wouldst find me such a plain king that thou wouldst

think I had sold my farm to buy my crown. I know no

ways to mince it in love, but directly to say 'I love you:' 125

then if you urge me farther than to say 'do you in faith?'

I wear out my suit. Give me your answer; i' faith, do:

and so clap hands and a bargain: how say you, lady?

_Kath._ Sauf votre honneur, me understand vell.[5371]

_K. Hen._ Marry, if you would put me to verses or to 130

dance for your sake, Kate, why you undid me: for the one,

I have neither words nor measure, and for the other, I

have no strength in measure, yet a reasonable measure in

strength. If I could win a lady at leap-frog, or by vaulting[5372]

into my saddle with my armour on my back, under the 135

correction of bragging be it spoken, I should quickly leap

into a wife. Or if I might buffet for my love, or bound my

horse for her favours, I could lay on like a butcher and

sit like a jack-an-apes, never off. But, before God, Kate,

I cannot look greenly nor gasp out my eloquence, nor I 140

have no cunning in protestation; only downright oaths,[5373]

which I never use till urged, nor never break for urging.[5374]

If thou canst love a fellow of this temper, Kate, whose face

is not worth sun-burning, that never looks in his glass for

love of any thing he sees there, let thine eye be thy cook. 145

I speak to thee plain soldier: if thou canst love me for this,[5375]

take me; if not, to say to thee that I shall die, is true; but

for thy love, by the Lord, no; yet I love thee too. And[5376]

while thou livest, dear Kate, take a fellow of plain and uncoined[5377]

constancy; for he perforce must do thee right, 150

because he hath not the gift to woo in other places: for[5378]

these fellows of infinite tongue, that can rhyme themselves

into ladies' favours, they do always reason themselves out

again. What! a speaker is but a prater; a rhyme is but a

ballad. A good leg will fall; a straight back will stoop; a 155

black beard will turn white; a curled pate will grow bald;

a fair face will wither; a full eye will wax hollow: but a

good heart, Kate, is the sun and the moon; or, rather, the

sun, and not the moon; for it shines bright and never

changes, but keeps his course truly. If thou would have[5379] 160

such a one, take me; and take me, take a soldier; take a[5380]

soldier, take a king. And what sayest thou then to my

love? speak, my fair, and fairly, I pray thee.

_Kath._ Is it possible dat I sould love de enemy of

France? 165

_K. Hen._ No; it is not possible you should love the

enemy of France, Kate: but, in loving me, you should love

the friend of France; for I love France so well that I will

not part with a village of it; I will have it all mine: and,

Kate, when France is mine and I am yours, then yours is[5381] 170

France and you are mine.

_Kath._ I cannot tell vat is dat.[5382]

_K. Hen._ No, Kate? I will tell thee in French; which

I am sure will hang upon my tongue like a new-married[5383]

wife about her husband's neck, hardly to be shook off. Je[5384] 175

quand sur le possession de France, et quand vous avez[5384][5385]

le possession de moi,--let me see, what then? Saint Denis[5385]

be my speed!--done votre est France et vous êtes mienne.

It is as easy for me, Kate, to conquer the kingdom as

to speak so much more French: I shall never move thee in 180

French, unless it be to laugh at me.

_Kath._ Sauf votre honneur, le François que vous parlez,

il est meilleur que l'Anglois lequel je parle.[5386]

_K. Hen._ No, faith, is't not, Kate: but thy speaking of

my tongue, and I thine, most truly-falsely, must needs be[5387] 185

granted to be much at one. But, Kate, dost thou understand

thus much English, canst thou love me?

_Kath._ I cannot tell.

_K. Hen._ Can any of your neighbours tell, Kate? I'll

ask them. Come, I know thou lovest me: and at night, 190

when you come into your closet, you'll question this gentlewoman

about me; and I know, Kate, you will to her

dispraise those parts in me that you love with your heart:

but, good Kate, mock me mercifully; the rather, gentle

princess, because I love thee cruelly. If ever thou beest 195

mine, Kate, as I have a saving faith within me tells me

thou shalt, I get thee with scambling, and thou must

therefore needs prove a good soldier-breeder: shall not

thou and I, between Saint Denis and Saint George, compound

a boy, half French, half English, that shall go to 200

Constantinople and take the Turk by the beard? shall we

not? what sayest thou, my fair flower-de-luce?

_Kath._ I do not know dat.

_K. Hen._ No; 'tis hereafter to know, but now to promise:

do but now promise, Kate, you will endeavour for your 205

French part of such a boy; and for my English moiety take

the word of a king and a bachelor. How answer you, la plus

belle Katharine du monde, mon très cher et devin déesse?[5388]

_Kath._ Your majestee ave fausse French enough to[5389]

deceive de most sage demoiselle dat is en France.[5390] 210

_K. Hen._ Now, fie upon my false French! By mine

honour, in true English, I love thee, Kate: by which

honour I dare not swear thou lovest me; yet my blood

begins to flatter me that thou dost, notwithstanding the

poor and untempering effect of my visage. Now, beshrew[5391] 215

my father's ambition! he was thinking of civil wars

when he got me: therefore was I created with a stubborn

outside, with an aspect of iron, that, when I come to woo

ladies, I fright them. But, in faith, Kate, the elder I wax,

the better I shall appear: my comfort is, that old age, that 220

ill layer up of beauty, can do no more spoil upon my face:

thou hast me, if thou hast me, at the worst; and thou

shalt wear me, if thou wear me, better and better: and

therefore tell me, most fair Katharine, will you have me?

Put off your maiden blushes; avouch the thoughts of your 225

heart with the looks of an empress; take me by the hand,

and say 'Harry of England, I am thine:' which word thou

shalt no sooner bless mine ear withal, but I will tell thee

aloud 'England is thine, Ireland is thine, France is thine,

and Henry Plantagenet is thine;' who, though I speak it 230

before his face, if he be not fellow with the best king, thou[5392]

shalt find the best king of good fellows. Come, your

answer in broken music; for thy voice is music and thy

English broken; therefore, queen of all, Katherine, break[5393]

thy mind to me in broken English; wilt thou have me? 235

_Kath._ Dat is as it sall please de roi mon père.[5394]

_K. Hen._ Nay, it will please him well, Kate; it shall

please him, Kate.

_Kath._ Den it sail also content me.[5394]

_K. Hen._ Upon that I kiss your hand, and I call you 240

my queen.

_Kath._ Laissez, mon seigneur, laissez, laissez: ma foi, je

ne veux point que vous abaissiez votre grandeur en baisant

la main d'une de votre seigneurie indigne serviteur;[5395]

excusez-moi, je vous supplie, mon très-puissant seigneur. 245

_K. Hen._ Then I will kiss your lips, Kate.

_Kath._ Les dames et demoiselles pour être baisées

devant leur noces, il n'est pas la coutume de France.[5396]

_K. Hen._ Madam my interpreter, what says she?

_Alice._ Dat it is not be de fashion pour les ladies of 250

France,--I cannot tell vat is baiser en Anglish.[5397]

_K. Hen._ To kiss.

_Alice._ Your majesty entendre bettre que moi.

_K. Hen._ It is not a fashion for the maids in France to[5398]

kiss before they are married, would she say? 255

_Alice._ Oui, vraiment.

_K. Hen._ O Kate, nice customs courtesy to great kings.[5399]

Dear Kate, you and I cannot be confined within the weak

list of a country's fashion: we are the makers of manners,

Kate; and the liberty that follows our places stops the 260

mouth of all find-faults; as I will do yours, for upholding[5400]

the nice fashion of your country in denying me a kiss:

therefore, patiently and yielding. [_Kissing her._] You have[5401]

witchcraft in your lips, Kate: there is more eloquence in

a sugar touch of them than in the tongues of the French[5402] 265

council; and they should sooner persuade Harry of England

than a general petition of monarchs. Here comes

your father.

_Re-enter the_ FRENCH KING _and his_ QUEEN, BURGUNDY, _and other_

Lords.[5403]

_Bur._ God save your majesty! my royal cousin, teach[5404][5405]

you our princess English?[5405] 270

_K. Hen._ I would have her learn, my fair cousin, how

perfectly I love her; and that is good English.

_Bur._ Is she not apt?[5406]

_K. Hen._ Our tongue is rough, coz, and my condition[5407]

is not smooth; so that, having neither the voice nor the 275

heart of flattery about me, I cannot so conjure up the spirit[5408]

of love in her, that he will appear in his true likeness.

_Bur._ Pardon the frankness of my mirth, if I answer

you for that. If you would conjure in her, you must make

a circle; if conjure up love in her in his true likeness, he 280

must appear naked and blind. Can you blame her then,

being a maid yet rosed over with the virgin crimson of[5409]

modesty, if she deny the appearance of a naked blind boy

in her naked seeing self? It were, my lord, a hard condition

for a maid to consign to. 285

_K. Hen._ Yet they do wink and yield, as love is blind

and enforces.

_Bur._ They are then excused, my lord, when they see

not what they do.

_K. Hen._ Then, good my lord, teach your cousin to 290

consent winking.[5410]

_Bur._ I will wink on her to consent, my lord, if you

will teach her to know my meaning: for maids, well summered[5411]

and warm kept, are like flies at Bartholomew-tide,

blind, though they have their eyes; and then they will 295

endure handling, which before would not abide looking on.

_K. Hen._ This moral ties me over to time and a hot[5412]

summer; and so I shall catch the fly, your cousin, in the

latter end and she must be blind too.

_Bur._ As love is, my lord, before it loves. 300

_K. Hen._ It is so: and you may, some of you, thank

love for my blindness, who cannot see many a fair French

city for one fair French maid that stands in my way.

_Fr. King._ Yes, my lord, you see them perspectively,

the cities turned into a maid; for they are all girdled with 305

maiden walls that war hath never entered.[5413]

_K. Hen._ Shall Kate be my wife?

_Fr. King._ So please you.

_K. Hen._ I am content; so the maiden cities you talk

of may wait on her: so the maid that stood in the way for[5414] 310

my wish shall show me the way to my will.[5414]

_Fr. King._ We have consented to all terms of reason.

_K. Hen._ Is't so, my lords of England?

_West._ The king hath granted every article:

His daughter first, and then in sequel all,[5415] 315

According to their firm proposed natures.[5416]

_Exe._ Only he hath not yet subscribed this:

Where your majesty demands, that the King of France,

having any occasion to write for matter of grant, shall name

your highness in this form and with this addition, in French, 320

Notre très-cher fils Henri, Roi d'Angleterre, Hèritier de[5417]

France; and thus in Latin, Præclarissimus filius noster[5418]

Henricus, Rex Angliæ, et Hæres Franciæ.

_Fr. King._ Nor this I have not, brother, so denied,[5419]

But your request shall make me lot it pass. 325

_K. Hen._ I pray you then, in love and dear alliance,

Let that one article rank with the rest;

And thereupon give me your daughter.[5420]

_Fr. King._ Take her, fair, son and from her blood raise up

Issue to me; that the contending kingdoms[5421] 330

Of France and England, whose very shores look pale[5422]

With envy of each other's happiness,

May cease their hatred, and this dear conjunction

Plant neighbourhood and Christian-like accord

In their sweet bosoms, that never war advance[5423] 335

His bleeding sword 'twixt England and fair France.

_All._ Amen![5424]

_K. Hen._ Now, welcome, Kate: and bear me witness all,

That here I kiss her as my sovereign queen. [_Flourish._

_Q. Isa._ God, the best maker of all marriages, 340

Combine your hearts in one, your realms in one!

As man and wife, being two, are one in love,

So be there 'twixt your kingdoms such a spousal,

That never may ill office, or fell jealousy,

Which troubles oft the bed of blessed marriage, 345

Thrust in between the paction of these kingdoms,[5425]

To make divorce of their incorporate league;

That English may as French, French Englishmen,[5426]

Receive each other. God speak this Amen!

_All._ Amen![5427] 350

_K. Hen._ Prepare we for our marriage: on which day,

My Lord of Burgundy, we'll take your oath,

And all the peers', for surety of our leagues.[5428]

Then shall I swear to Kate, and you to me;

And may our oaths well kept and prosperous be! 360

[_Sennet. Exeunt._[5429]

EPILOGUE.

_Enter_ CHORUS.[5430]

_Chor._ Thus far, with rough and all-unable pen,

Our bending author hath pursued the story,[5431]

In little room confining mighty men,

Mangling by starts the full course of their glory.

Small time, but in that small most greatly lived 5

This star of England: Fortune made his sword;

By which the world's best garden he achieved,

And of it left his son imperial lord.[5432]

Henry the Sixth, in infant bands crown'd King

Of France and England, did this king succeed; 10

Whose state so many had the managing,

That they lost France and made his England bleed:[5433]

Which oft our stage hath shown; and, for their sake,

In your fair minds let this acceptance take. [_Exit._[5434]

FOOTNOTES:

[5295] ACT V. PROLOGUE.] Actus Quintus. Ff. ACT V. SCENE I. Rowe.

Theobald continues the scene.

[5296] _to those_] _all those_ Collier MS.

[5297] _of such_] Ff. _to such_ Pope. _for such_ Capell.

[5298] _there; there_] F₁. _there; and there being_ F₂ F₃ F₄.

_see_] _seen awhile_ Steevens conj.

[5299] _with wives_] F₂ F₃ F₄. _wives_ F₁. _and wives_ Anon. conj.

[5300] _the antique_] _antique_ Pope.

[5301] _lower but_] Edd. (Seymour conj.). _lower, but by_ Ff. _low,

but_ Pope.

[5302] _As yet_] _Pass o'er_ Hanmer. _And here_ Capell.

[5303] _Invites the ... home_] _In thought, the ... home_ Hanmer.

_Invites,--the ... home,--_ Capell.

[5304] _emperor's_] _emperor_ Delius (Heath and Mason conj.).

[5305] _them; and_] _them:--But these now We pass in silence over;

and_ Capell.

[5306] SCENE I.] Hanmer. SCENE II. Pope. Johnson would place this scene

at the end of Act IV.

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

Guard. Capell.

[5307] _Davy's_] _Davies_ Ff. _David's_ Rowe.

[5308] _asse my_] Ff. _asse a_ Rowe (ed. 2). _as a_ Pope.

[5309] _yourself_] _myself_ Anon. conj.

[5310] _not_ om. Pope.

_contention_] _contentions_ Pope.

[5311] _swellings_] _swelling_ F₄.

[5312] _pless you_] _plesse_ F₃ F₄.

[5313] _Ha!... leek_] As in Pope. As prose in Ff.

[5314] _bedlam_] _beldam_ Johnson.

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

[5316] _nor_] _and_ Pope.

[5317] _disgestions_] Ff. _digestions_ Rowe.

[5318] _doo's_] F₁ F₂ F₃. _does_ F₄.

[5319] [Strikes him.] Ff.

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

[5321] [beating again. Capell.

[5322] _days_] _and four nights_ (Qq) Pope.

[giving the Leek into his Hand. Capell.

[5323] _certainly, and_] om. Pope.

_question_] _questions_ Pope.

[5324] [eating of it. Capell.

[5325] As verse in Dyce. As three lines, ending _leek ... I eat ...

swear_. Capell conj.

_I eat and eat, I swear--_] _I eate and eate I sweare._ Ff. _I eat

and swear--_ Pope. _I eat and eke I swear._ Rann (Johnson conj.). _I

eat, and eating swear_ Holt White conj. _I eat and--_ Flu. _Eat!_

Pist. _I swear--_ Delius conj. _I eat! an I eat. I swear--_ Edd. conj.

[5326] _'em_] _them_ Capell.

_that is_] _that's_ Rowe.

[5327] _God b' wi'_] Capell. _God bu'y_ F₁ F₂. _Gud bu'y_ F₃ F₄. _God

pe wi'_ Rowe (ed. 2).

[5328] _begun_] Capell. _began_ Ff.

[5329] _it_] _'tis_ Warburton.

[5330] _ye_] _you_ Pope.

[5331] _Doth ... hand_] As verse first by Pope. As prose in Ff.

[5332] _Doll_] Ff. _Nell_ Capell. See note (XX).

_i' the spital_] om. Pope.

[5333] _malady_] Pope. _a malady_ Ff.

_France;_] _France; mine hostess too_ Farmer conj. MS.

[5334] _cudgelled_] Collier. _cudgeld_ F₁ F₂. _cudgell'd_ F₃ F₄.

_I'll_] _will I_ (Qq) Pope.

[5335] _cudgell'd_] om. (Qq) Pope.

[5336] _swear_] F₃ F₄. _swore_ F₁ F₂.

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

France ...] The same. A Room in some Palace. Capell. The French Court,

at Trois in Champaigne. Theobald. Troyes. S. Peter's Church. Delius

conj. (from Holinshed).

Gloucester] Malone. om. Ff.

Westmoreland] Capell. om. Ff.

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

the Duke of Burgundy and his train.] Capell. the Duke of Burgougne, and

other French. Ff (Bourgoigne, F₂. Burgoign, F₃ F₄).

[5338] _Burgundy_] Rowe. _Burgogne_ F₁. _Burgoigne_ F₂ F₄. _Bargoigne_

F₃.

[5339] _fairly_] _fairely_ F₁. _faire_ F₂. _fair_ F₃ F₄.

[5340] _England_] F₂ F₃ F₄. _Ireland_ F₁.

[5341] _borne in them Against_] F₂ F₃ F₄. _borne In them against_ F₁.

[5342] _Have lost their_] _Hath lost its_ Long MS.

[5343] _I have_] _I've_ Pope.

[5344] _mightiness ... best can_] _mightinesses ... best can_ Rowe.

_mightinesses ... can_ Pope.

[5345] _put_] _lift_ Collier MS.

[5346] _its_] _it's_ F₃ F₄. _it_ F₁ F₂.

[5347] _dies_] _lyes_ Theobald (Warburton).

_even-pleach'd_] Hanmer. _even pleach'd_ F₁ F₂. _even, pleach'd_ F₃

F₄.

[5348] _fumitory_] F₄. _femetary_ F₁ F₂ F₃.

[5349] _Doth_] _Do_ Hanmer.

_coulter_] Johnson. _culter_ Ff.

[5350] _all_] Rowe (ed. 2). _withall_ Ff.

[5351] _kecksies_] F₃ F₄. _keksyes_ F₁ F₂.

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

[5353] _as ... wildness,_] Capell (Roderick conj.) _all ... wildnesse_

Ff.

[5354] _natures_] _nurtures_ Theobald (Warburton).

[5355] _grow_] _gow_ F₂.

[5356] _diffused_] _diffus'd_ F₃ F₄. _defus'd_ F₁ F₂.

[5357] _Burgundy_] Rowe. _Burgonie_ F₁. _Burgony_ F₂ F₃ F₄.

[5358] _tenours_] Theobald. _tenures_ Ff.

[5359] _have_] _have as yet_ Hanmer.

_cursorary_] (Q₂) Pope. _curselarie_ F₁. _curselary_ F₂ F₃ F₄.

_cursenary_ (Q₁ Q₂). _cursory_ Hamner.

[5360] _us once more, with_] _us, once more with_ Rowe.

[5361] _Pass our accept_] _Pass, or accept_ Theobald (Warburton).

_Pass, or except_ Malone conj. _Pass our exact_ Jervis conj.

[5362] _and you_] F₁. _and_ F₂ F₃ F₄. om. Pope.

[5363] _Huntingdon_] _Huntington_ Ff.

[5364] _advantageable_] _advantage_ Collier (Collier MS.).

[5365] _Any ... demands_] Omitted by Pope.

[5366] _Haply_] F₄. _Happily_ F₁. _Happely_ F₂ F₃.

[5367] [Exeunt all ...] Exeunt omnes. Manet King and Katharine. Ff.

Exeunt. Manet King Henry, Katharine, and a Lady. Rowe (ed. 1). SCENE

IV. Pope. SCENE III. Hanmer.

_and_] om. Pope.

[5368] _vat_] Rowe. _wat_ Ff.

[5369] _the tongues_] _tongues_ F₄.

[5370] _is de princess_] _says de princess_ Mason conj. _is de princess

say_ Keightley conj.

[5371] _understand_] _understand not_ Keightley conj.

[5372] _vaulting_] F₃ F₄. _vawting_ F₁ F₂.

[5373] _no_] om. Pope.

[5374] _nor_] _and_ Pope.

[5375] _to thee_] _thee_ Rowe. om. Pope.

[5376] _by the Lord_] _by the L._ Ff.

[5377] _dear_] om. Warburton.

[5378] _places_] _paces_ Anon., apud Dyce, conj.

[5379] _would_] _would'st_ Rowe.

[5380] _take me; and take me, take a soldier; take_] _take me? and

take me; take a souldier: take_ Ff. _take me: take_ Pope.

[5381] _then_] _thine_ Capell (corrected in notes and MS.).

[5382] _vat_] _wat_ Ff. _vhat_ Rowe.

[5383] _new-married_] _married_ Warburton. See note (XXI).

[5384] _Je quand sur_] Ff. _Quand j'ay_ Pope. _Je dis, quand j'ay_

Long MS. _Je conte sur_ Anon. conj.

[5385] _le ... le_] Ff. _la ... la_ Capell. See note (XXII).

[5386] _il est_] _il &c._ Ff. _est_ Pope.

_meilleur_] Hanmer. _melieus_ F₁ F₂. _melius_ F₃ F₄. _melieur_ Rowe.

_mellieur_ Pope.

[5387] _thine_] _of thine_ Keightley conj.

_truly-falsely_] Edd. (S. Walker conj.). _truly falsely_ Ff.

[5388] _cher et devin_] Ff. _chere et divine_ Rowe.

[5389] _ave_] Ff. _have_ Collier.

[5390] _demoiselle_] _damoiseil_ F₁ F₂. _damoisel_ F₃ F₄.

[5391] _untempering_] _untempting_ Warburton.

[5392] _with the best king,_] _with the best kings,_ Hanmer.

[5393] _all, Katharine,_] _all Catharines,_ Capell conj.

[5394] _sall ... sall_] _shall ... sall_ Ff. _shall ... shall_ Rowe.

[5395] _d'une de votre seigneurie indigne_] Edd. _d'une nostre

Seigneur indignie_ Ff. _d'une vostre indigne_ Pope.

[5396] _noces_] Dyce and Staunton. _nopeese_ Ff.

[5397] _vat_] _wat_ F₁ F₂ F₃. _what_ F₄.

_baiser_] Hanmer. _buisse_ Ff. _to bassie_ (Qq). _baisser_ Theobald.

[5398] _It is_] F₁ F₂. _Is it_ F₃ F₄.

[5399] _courtesy_] _cursie_ Ff.

[5400] _upholding_] _the upholding_ Rowe.

[5401] [Kissing her] Rowe.

[5402] _sugar_] om. Pope.

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

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

[5405] As prose in Ff. As two lines, the first ending _cousin,_ in

Capell.

[5406] _not_] F₁ F₂. om. F₃ F₄.

[5407] _coz,_] om. Pope.

[5408] _flattery_] _hatred_ Rowe (ed. 2). See note (XXIII).

[5409] _rosed_] _rosy’d_ Capell.

[5410] _winking_] F₁. _to winking_ F₂ F₃ F₄.

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

[5412] _ties_] F₃ F₄ _tyes_ F₁ F₂. _turns_ Capell conj.

[5413] _never_] Rowe. om. Ff. _not_ Capell.

[5414] _for my_] _of my_ Heath conj.

[5415] _and then in sequel_] F₂ F₃ F₄. _and in sequele_ F₁. _and in the

sequel_ Keightley conj.

[5416] _natures_] _nature_ Pope.

[5417] _Hèritier_] _heretere_ Ff.

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

[5419] _Nor_] _Yet_ Pope.

[5420] _me_] _unto me_ Keightley conj.

_daughter_] _daughter here_ S. Walker conj.

[5421] _the_] _these_ Pope.

[5422] _Of France and England_] _England and France_ Pope.

[5423] _bosoms_] _breasts_ Pope.

_never_] _ne'er_ S. Walker conj.

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

[5425] _paction_] Theobald. _pation_ F₁ F₂. _passion_ F₃ F₄.

[5426] _That_] _But_ Capell.

[5427] _All._] Ff.

[5428] _peers'_] Capell. _peers_ Ff.

[5429] [Sennet.] Senet. F₁. Sonet. F₂ F₃ F₄. sonnet. Rowe. om. Pope.

See note (XXV).

[5430] EPILOGUE. Enter Chorus.] Enter Chorus. Ff. Enter Chorus, as

Epilogue. Collier (Collier MS.).

[5431] _bending_] _blending_ Johnson (Warburton conj.).

[5432] lord.] F₁. _lord,_ F₂ F₃ F₄.

[5433] _made_] F₁. _make_ F₂ F₃ F₄.

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

NOTES.

NOTE I.

DRAMATIS PERSONÆ. In Rowe's list, which remained uncorrected by any

editor before Capell, the Duke of Clarence is introduced and the Duke

of York is called '_Uncle_ to the king.' The list we have given differs

in a few other unimportant points from that of Rowe.

In the first Folio the title of the play is _The Life of Henry the

Fift_. The second Folio has _The Life of King Henry the Fift_. In the

Folios the play is divided into acts, but not into scenes, although

they prefix _Actus Primus, Scena Prima_, to the first act. The division

was first made by Pope.

NOTE II.

Act II. Prologue, 31, 32. Mr Knight says, "The passage is evidently

corrupt; and we believe that the two lines were intended to be erased

from the author's copy; for 'the abuse of distance' is inapplicable as

the lines stand." Mr Keightley proposes to read,

'and we'll digest

The abuse of distance as we forge our play.'

We have left the reading of the Folios, as no proposed emendation can

be regarded as entirely satisfactory.

NOTE III.

II. 2. 139, 140. Malone misquotes the reading of Pope in this passage,

and his error is repeated without correction in subsequent editions.

Mr Mitford in the _Gentleman's Magazine_, Nov. 1844, proposes to read,

'To mark the full-fraught man and _least inclined_,' &c., quoting

'_inclined_' as if it were the received text. Perhaps it is a printer's

error.

NOTE IV.

II. 2. 176. Mr Collier in a note which has remained uncorrected in his

second edition says, "Malone, without any authority from Quartos or

Folios, printed 'Whose ruin you _three_ sought.'" The fact is that this

is the reading of every Folio, except the first, and of every edition,

without exception, which had appeared before Malone's.

NOTE V.

II. 3. 16. Here is Pope's note on this famous passage: 'These words

_and a table of green fields_ are not to be found in the old editions

of 1600 and 1608. This nonsense got into all the following editions by

a pleasant mistake of the Stage-editors, who printed from the common

piecemeal-written parts in the Play-house. A Table was here directed

to be brought in (it being a scene in a tavern where they drink at

parting) and this direction crept into the text from the margin.

Greenfield was the name of the Property-man in that time who furnished

implements &c. for the actors. A table of Greenfield's.'

Theobald's emendation was suggested, he says, by a marginal conjecture

in an edition of Shakespeare 'by a gentleman sometime deceased.'

_Shakespeare Restored_, p. 138.

Mr Spedding approves of _talked_ as being nearer to the _ductus

literarum_, according to the handwriting of the time. The reading

_talked_ derives some support from the following passage in the Quartos:

'His nose was as sharpe as a pen:

For when I saw him fumble with the sheetes,

And talk of floures, and smile vpo his fingers ends

I knew there was no way but one.'

NOTE VI.

II. 4. 1. We retain the reading _comes_ which is authorized by the

Folios. It is an example of the idiom mentioned in the note to _King

John_, V. 4. 14. So we find in the passage of the first and third

Quartos, corresponding to II. 4. 72, 'Cut up _this English_ short,'

and again in that corresponding to IV. 3. 69, 'The _French is_ in the

field.' See, also, IV. 4. 74.

NOTE VII.

III. 2. 18. The Quartos here read 'breaches,' not 'preaches,' and the

Folios 'breach,' not 'preach.' Throughout the speeches of Fluellen the

old copies sometimes mark the peculiarity of his pronunciation, by

using 'p' for 'b,' and 't' for 'd,' sometimes not; an inconsistency,

which Hanmer and others have attempted to correct. As a rule, we have

silently followed the first Folio. See _Merry Wives of Windsor_,

Note II. The same will apply to the Scotch of Jamy and the Irish of

Macmorris; for these dialects, which could not be represented by the

printer, were left to the actor's power of imitation.

Ritson, in his _Remarks_, p. 108, says, 'In the Folio, it is the _duke

of Exeter_ and not Fluellen, who enters and to whom Pistol addresses

himself. Shakespeare had made the alteration and the player editors

inserted it in the text, but inadvertently, left Fluellen in possession

of the margin.' No copy of any Folio with which we are acquainted bears

out Ritson's assertion. All have _Enter Fluellen_, as well as _Flu._ in

the margin. It seems to us that there is some comic humour in making

Pistol, almost beside himself with fright, endeavour to propitiate

the captain by giving him high sounding titles. The language, too, of

the exhortation is more suitable to the choleric Fluellen than to the

stately Exeter.

NOTE VIII.

III. 1. 112-114. Mr Knight, at the suggestion of a friend, transposes

this passage thus: 'Of my nation? What ish my nation? What ish my

nation? Who talks of my nation ish a villain, a bastard, and a knave,

and a rascal.' We agree with Mr Staunton's suggestion, that 'the

incoherence of the original was designed to mark the impetuosity of the

speaker.'

NOTE IX.

III. 3. 32. The editor of the variorum edition of 1803, adopting the

emendation 'deadly,' which was really Capell's conjecture, though

Malone appropriates it, makes it appear, as if on the authority of

Malone, that 'deadly' is the reading of the second Folio. We have left

unnoticed many similar errors, which run, uncorrected, through the

successive variorum editions.

NOTE X.

III. 4. 1. We content ourselves with a few specimens of the errors and

variations of the old copies in this scene. The French was set right,

or nearly so, by successive alterations made by Rowe, Pope, Theobald,

Warburton, and Capell. Some obvious corrections in the distribution of

the dialogue were made by Theobald.

NOTE XI.

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

_Enter the King of France, the Dolphin, the Constable of France, and

others._ To the speeches which commence lines 10 and 32 they prefix

_Brit._ But as the Duke of 'Britaine' does not appear elsewhere in the

play, and as the stage direction of the Quartos runs: _Enter King

of France, Bourbon, Dolphin, and others_, we have followed Theobald

in introducing Bourbon among the persons who enter and in assigning

the two speeches to him. 'Bourbon,' and not 'Britaine,' is mentioned

among the lords in line 41. In Holinshed (p. 1077, ed. 1577), the

Dukes of Berry and Britaine are mentioned as belonging to the French

king's council, and not the Duke of Bourbon. Shakespeare probably first

intended to introduce the Duke of Britaine, and then changed his mind,

but forgot to substitute _Bour._ for _Brit._ before the two speeches.

Rowe omitted to insert the Duke of 'Britaine' in his list of Dramatis

Personæ.

NOTE XII.

III. 5. 40. As the metre will not allow us to set _Delabreth_ right

by reading _D'Albret_, we do not see what is gained by substituting

_De-la-bret_, which is as erroneous as the word which Shakespeare

copied from Holinshed. The same chronicler afterwards calls him

_Dalbreth_. (Holinshed, ed. 1577, p. 1175 and 1176).

NOTE XIII.

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

the whole passage thus:

'We would have such offenders so cut off,

And give express charge that in all our march

There shall be nothing taken from the villages

But shall be paid for, and no French upbraided

Or yet abused in disdainful language;

When lenity and cruelty play for kingdoms

The gentler gamester is the soonest winner.'

NOTE XIV.

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

'Thus says my King: say thou to Harry England,

Although we seemed dead, we did but sleep:

Advantage is a better soldier than rashness.

Tell him we could at Harfleur have rebuk'd him,

But that we thought not good to bruise an injury

Till it were ripe. Now speak we on our cue,

With voice imperial: England shall repent

His folly, see his weakness, and admire

Our suff'rance. Bid him therefore to consider

What must the ransom be, which must proportion

The losses we have born, the subjects we

Have lost, and the disgrace we have digested;

To answer which, his pettiness would bow under.

First for our loss, too poor is his Exchequer;

For the effusion of our blood, his army

Too faint a number; and for our disgrace,

Ev'n his own person kneeling at our feet

A weak and worthless satisfaction.

To this defiance add; and for conclusion,

Tell him he hath betray'd his followers,

Whose condemnation is pronounc'd. So far

My King and master; and so much my office.'

NOTE XV.

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

'Then, mean and gentle, all

Behold, (as may unworthiness define)

A little touch, &c.'

In his note he says: 'The poet, first, expatiates on the real influence

that Harry's eye had on the camp: and then addressing himself to every

degree of his audience, he tells them, he'll shew (as well as his

unworthy pen and powers can describe it) a little touch, or sketch of

this hero in the night.'

Hanmer reads,

'Then mean and gentle all

Behold, &c.'

Capell, following substantially Theobald, reads,

'Then, mean and gentle all,

Behold, &c.'

Theobald supports his reading by two quotations from previous speeches

of the chorus (I. prol. 8; II. prol. 35) in which the audience are

addressed as 'gentles;' but this does not justify the supposition that

he would address any of them as 'mean.' The phrase 'mean and gentle'

appears to us to refer to the various ranks of the English army who are

mentioned in the previous line. Delius's conjecture that a line is lost

after the word 'all' seems very probable.

NOTE XVI.

IV. 1. 274, 275. Theobald says, "The poet might intend, 'Take from

them the sense of reckoning those opposed numbers; which might pluck

their courage from them.' But the relative not being expressed, the

sense is very obscure; and the following verb seems a petition, in the

imperative mood."

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

supply thus:

'Take from them now

The sense of reckoning of the opposed numbers,

_Lest that the multitudes which stand before them_

Pluck their hearts from them.'

NOTE XVII.

IV. 2. 60. The conjectural reading, _guidon:_ for _guard: on_, which

we have adopted, and which is attributed by recent editors to Dr

Thackeray, late Provost of King's College, Cambridge, is found in

Rann's edition, without any name attached. Dr Thackeray probably made

the conjecture independently. We find it written in pencil on the

margin of his copy of Nares's Glossary, under the word 'Guard.'

NOTE XVIII.

IV. 3. 13, 14. Thirlby's emendation, which indeed seems absolutely to

be required by the context, is supported by the corresponding passage

in the Quartos:

'_Clar._ Farewell kind Lord, fight valiantly to day,

And yet in truth, I do thee wrong,

For thou art made on the true sparkes of honour.'

NOTE XIX.

IV. 3. 52. We retain _his mouth_, because it gives a very complete

sense, and because the authority of the Folio is greatly superior to

that of the Quarto. The names of the King, Bedford, &c. were to be

familiar as household words in the mouth of the old veteran, that is,

spoken of every day, not on one day of the year only. The neighbours,

who had no personal recollections connected with those names, were only

reminded of them by their host on St Crispin's day.

NOTE XX.

V. 1. 73. Although it appears from line 75, 'And there my rendezvous is

quite cut off,' that Capell's emendation is what Shakespeare ought to

have written, yet as the reading 'Doll' is found throughout both the

Quartos and Folios, it is probable that the mistake is the author's

own, and therefore, in accordance with our principle, we have allowed

it to remain.

NOTE XXI.

V. 2. 174. Warburton's printer by mistake gave 'married' for

'new-married.' Johnson says: "Every wife is a married wife: I suppose

we should read 'new-married,'" which is in fact the reading of every

edition before Warburton's. In line 149, he omitted to correct

Warburton's misprint of 'Kate' for 'dear Kate.' The Doctor seems

to have collated the older editions by fits and starts, with long

intervals of laziness.

NOTE XXII.

V. 2. 176. As it is clear that the king is meant to speak bad

French, we leave uncorrected what we find in the Folios. His French

is much worse in the Quartos. In line 208, most editors, somewhat

inconsistently, leave 'mon' for 'ma' while they change 'cher' and

'devin' to 'chère' and 'divine.'

NOTE XXIII.

V. 2. 276. This curious misprint, 'hatred' for 'flattery', escaped the

notice of Pope, who repeated it in both his editions. Theobald first

pointed it out in his Letters to Warburton, _Nichols' Illustrations_,

Vol. II. p. 429.

NOTE XXIV.

V. 2. 322. Shakespeare copied both French and Latin from Holinshed,

where by mistake 'Præclarissimus' is printed for 'Præcharissimus' (p.

1207, ed. 1577). The same error is found in Hall, _Henry V._ fol. 39 b

(ed. 1550).

NOTE XXV.

V. 2. 360. The printer of the second Folio when he misread 'Sonet' for

'Senet,' probably supposed it to be the title of the poem of fourteen

lines, which the Chorus speaks, though the position of the word is

ambiguous. The printer of the fourth Folio and Rowe place it as if

it belonged to the _Enter Chorus_ rather than to the _Exeunt_. Pope

omitted the word altogether, and it did not reappear till Mr Dyce

restored it.

The Chronicle Historie

of _Henry_ the fift: with his battel fought

at _AginCourt_ in _France_. Togither with

Auncient _Pistoll_.

[Sidenote: [SC. I.]]

_Enter King_ Henry, Exeter, _2. Bishops_, Clarence, _and other

Attendants_.

_Exeter._ Shall I call in Thambassadors my Liege?

_King._ Not yet my Cousin, til we be resolude

Of some serious matters touching vs and _France_.

_Bi._ God and his Angels guard your sacred throne,

And make you long become it. 5

_King._ Shure we thank you. And good my Lord proceed[5435]

Why the Lawe _Salicke_ which they haue in _France_,

Or should or should not, stop vs in our clayme:[5436]

And God forbid my wise and learned Lord,

That you should fashion, frame, or wrest the same. 10

For God doth know how many now in health,

Shall drop their blood in approbation,

Of what your reuerence shall incite vs too.

Therefore take heed how you impawne our person,

How you awake the sleeping sword of warre: 15

We charge you in the name of God take heed.

After this coniuration, speake my Lord:

And we will iudge, note, and beleeue in heart,

That what you speake, is washt as pure

As sin in baptisme. 20

[_Bish._

Then heare me gracious soueraigne, and you peeres,[5437]

Which owe your liues, your faith and seruices

To this imperiall throne.

There is no bar to stay your highnesse claime to _France_

But one, which they produce from _Faramount_, 25

No female shall succeed in salicke land,

Which salicke land the French vniustly gloze

To be the realme of _France_:

And _Faramont_ the founder of this law and female barre:

Yet their owne writers faithfully affirme 30

That the land salicke lyes in _Germany_,

Betweene the flouds of _Sabeck_ and of _Elme_,

Where _Charles_ the fift hauing subdude the Saxons,

There left behind, and setled certaine French,

Who holding in disdaine the Germaine women, 35

For some dishonest maners of their liues,

Establisht there this lawe. To wit,

No female shall succeed in salicke land:

Which salicke land as I said before,[5438]

Is at this time in _Germany_ called _Mesene_: 40

Thus doth it well appeare the salicke lawe

Was not deuised for the realme of _France_,

Nor did the French possesse the salicke land,

Vntill 400. one and twentie yeares

After the function of king _Faramont_, 45

Godly supposed the founder of this lawe:

_Hugh Capet_ also that vsurpt the crowne,

To fine his title with some showe of truth,

When in pure truth it was corrupt and naught:

Conuaid himselfe as heire to the Lady _Inger_,[5439] 50

Daughter to _Charles_, the foresaid Duke of _Lorain_,

So that as cleare as is the sommers Sun,

King _Pippins_ title and _Hugh Capets_ claime,

King _Charles_ his satisfaction all appeare,

To hold in right and title of the female: 55

So do the Lords of _France_ vntil this day,

Howbeit they would hold vp this salick lawe

To bar your highnesse claiming from the female,

And rather choose to hide them in a net,

Then amply to imbace their crooked causes,[5440] 60

Vsurpt from you and your progenitors.

_K._ May we with right & conscience make this claime?

_Bi._ The sin vpon my head dread soueraigne.

For in the booke of Numbers is it writ,[5441]

When the sonne dyes, let the inheritance 65

Descend vnto the daughter.

Noble Lord stand for your owne,

Vnwinde your bloody flagge,

Go my dread Lord to your great graunsirs graue,[5442]

From whom you clayme: 70

And your great Vncle _Edward_ the blacke Prince,

Who on the French ground playd a Tragedy

Making defeat on the full power of _France,_

Whilest his most mighty father on a hill,

Stood smiling to behold his Lyons whelpe, 75

Foraging blood of French Nobilitie.[5443]

O Noble English that could entertaine

With halfe their Forces the full power of _France_:

And let an other halfe stand laughing by,

All out of worke, and cold for action. 80

_King._ We must not onely arme vs against the French,[5444]

But lay downe our proportion for the Scot,[5445]

Who will make rode vpon vs with all aduantages.

_Bi._ The Marches gracious soueraigne, shalbe sufficient

To guard your _England_ from the pilfering borderers. 85

_King._ We do not meane the coursing sneakers onely,

But feare the mayne entendement of the Scot,

For you shall read, neuer my great grandfather

Vnmaskt his power for _France_,

But that the Scot on his vnfurnisht Kingdome, 90

Came pouring like the Tide into a breach,

That _England_ being empty of defences,

Hath shooke and trembled at the brute hereof.

_Bi._ She hath bin then more feared then hurt my Lord:

For heare her but examplified by her selfe, 95

When all her chiualry hath bene in _France_

And she a mourning widow of her Nobles,

She hath her selfe not only well defended,

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

Whom like a caytiffe she did leade to _France_, 100

Filling your Chronicles as rich with praise

As is the owse and bottome of the sea

With sunken wrack and shiplesse treasurie.

_Lord._ There is a saying very old and true,

If you will _France_ win, 105

Then with _Scotland_ first begin:

For once the Eagle, England being in pray,

To his vnfurnish nest the weazel Scot[5446]

Would suck her egs, playing the mouse in absence of the cat:

To spoyle and hauock more then she can eat. 110

_Exe._ It followes then, the cat must stay at home,

Yet that is but a curst necessitie,

Since we haue trappes to catch the petty theeues:

Whilste that the armed hand doth fight abroad

The aduised head controlles at home: 115

For gouernment though high or lowe, being put into parts,[5447]

Congrueth with a mutuall consent like musicke.

_Bi._ True: therefore doth heauen diuide the fate of man in diuers

functions.

Whereto is added as an ayme or but, obedience:

For so liue the honey Bees, creatures that by awe 120

Ordaine an act of order to a peopeld Kingdome:

They haue a King and officers of sort,

Where some like Magistrates correct at home:

Others like Marchants venture trade abroad:

Others like souldiers armed in their stings, 125

Make boote vpon the sommers veluet bud:

Which pillage they with mery march bring home

To the tent royall of their Emperour;

Who busied in his maiestie, behold

The singing masons building roofes of gold: 130

The ciuell citizens lading vp the honey,

The sad eyde Iustice with his surly humme,

Deliuering vp to executors pale, the lazy caning Drone.

This I infer, that 20. actions once a foote,

May all end in one moment. 135

As many Arrowes losed seuerall wayes, flye to one marke:

As many seuerall wayes meete in one towne:

As many fresh streames run in one selfe sea:

As many lines close in the dyall center:

So may a thousand actions once a foote, 140

End in one moment, and be all well borne without defect.

Therefore my Liege to _France_,

Diuide your happy England into foure,

Of which take you one quarter into France,

And you withall, shall make all _Gallia_ shake. 145

If we with thrice that power left at home,

Cannot defend our owne doore from the dogge,

Let vs be beaten, and from henceforth lose

The name of pollicy and hardinesse.

_Ki._ Call in the messenger sent frō the Dolphin. 150

And by your ayde, the noble sinewes of our land,

_France_ being ours, weele bring it to our awe,

Or breake it all in peeces:

Eyther our Chronicles shal with full mouth speak

Freely of our acts, 155

Or else like toonglesse mutes

Not worshipt with a paper Epitaph:

_Enter Thambassadors from France._

Now are we well prepared to know the Dolphins pleasure,

For we heare your comming is from him.

_Ambassa._ Pleaseth your Maiestie to giue vs leaue 160

Freely to render what we haue in charge:

Or shall I sparingly shew a farre off,

The Dolphins pleasure and our Embassage?

_King._ We are no tyrant, but a Christian King,

To whom our spirit is as subiect, 165

As are our wretches fettered in our prisons.

Therefore freely and with vncurbed boldnesse

Tell vs the Dolphins minde.

_Ambas._ Then this in fine the Dolphin saith,

Whereas you clayme certaine Townes in France, 170

From your predecessor king _Edward_ the third,

This he returnes.

He saith, theres nought in _France_ that can be with a nimble

Galliard wonne: you cannot reuel into Dukedomes there:

Therefore he sendeth meeter for your study, 175

This tunne of treasure: and in lieu of this,

Desires to let the Dukedomes that you craue

Heare no more from you: This the Dolphin saith.

_King._ What treasure Vncle?

_Exe._ Tennis balles my Liege. 180

_King._ We are glad the Dolphin is so pleasant with vs,

Your message and his present we accept:

When we haue matched our rackets to these balles,

We will by Gods grace play such a set,[5448]

Shall strike his fathers crowne into the hazard. 185

Tell him he hath made a match with such a wrangler,

That all the Courts of _France_ shall be disturbd with chases.

And we vnderstand him well, how he comes ore vs

With our wilder dayes, not measuring what vse we made of them.

We neuer valued this poore seate of England. 190

And therefore gaue our selues to barbarous licence:

As tis common seene that men are merriest when they are from home.

But tell the Dolphin we will keepe our state,

Be like a King, mightie and commaund,

When we do rowse vs in throne of _France_:[5449] 195

For this haue we laid by our Maiestie:[5450]

And plodded lide a man for working dayes.[5451]

But we will rise there with so full of glory,[5452]

That we will dazell all the eyes of _France_,

I strike the Dolphin blinde to looke on vs, 200

And tell him this, his mock hath turnd his balles to gun stones,

And his soule shall sit sore charged for the wastfull vengeance

That shall flye from them. For this his mocke

Shall mocke many a wife out of their deare husbands.

Mocke mothers from their sonnes, mocke Castles downe, 205

I some are yet vngotten and vnborne,

That shall haue cause to curse the Dolphins scorne.

But this lyes all within the wil of God, to whom we doo appeale,

And in whose name tel you the Dolphin we are coming on

To venge vs as we may, and to put forth our hand 210

In a rightfull cause: so get you hence, and tell your Prince,[5453]

His Iest will sauour but of shallow wit,

When thousands weepe, more then did laugh at it.

Conuey them with safe conduct: see them hence.

_Exe._ This was a merry message. 215