Most spend their mouths, when what they seem to threaten, Runs far before them. Good my sovereign, Re-enter Lords, with EXETER and Train. Fr. King. From our brother England? Exe. From him; and thus he greets your ma jesty. He wills you, in the name of God Almighty, The borrow'd glories, that, by gift of heaven, Unto the crown of France. That you may know, [Gives a paper. In every branch truly demonstrative; 8-spend their mouths,] That is, bark; the sportsman's term. 9 lineage. memorable line,] This genealogy; this deduction of his Fr. King. Or else what follows? Exe. Bloody constraint; for if you hide the crown Even in your hearts, there will he rake for it: And therefore in fierce tempest is he coming, In thunder, and in earthquake, like a Jove; (That, if requiring fail, he will compel;) And bids you, in the bowels of the Lord, Deliver up the crown; and to take mercy On the poor souls, for whom this hungry war Opens his vasty jaws: and on your head Turns he the widows' tears, the orphans' cries, The dead men's blood, the pining maidens' groans, For husbands, fathers, and betrothed lovers, That shall be swallow'd in this controversy. This is his claim, his threat'ning, and my message; Unless the Dauphin be in presence here, To whom expressly I bring greeting too. Fr. King. For us, we will consider of this further: To-morrow shall you bear our full intent Back to our brother England. Dau. For the Dauphin, I stand here for him; What to him from England? Exe. Scorn, and defiance; slight regard, contempt, And any thing that may not misbecome The mighty sender, doth he prize you at. Thus says my king: and, if your father's highness Dau. Say, if my father render fair reply, It is against my will: for I desire 1 Shall chide your trespass,] To chide is to resound, to ccho. Nothing but odds with England; to that end, I did present him with those Paris balls. Exe. He'll make your Paris Louvre shake for it, Were it the mistress court of mighty Europe: And, be assur'd, you'll find a difference, (As we, his subjects, have in wonder found,) Between the promise of his greener days, And these he masters now; now he weighs time, Even to the utmost grain; which you shall read In your own losses, if he stay in France. Fr. King. To-morrow shall you know our mind at full. Exe. Despatch us with all speed, lest that our king Come here himself to question our delay; For he is footed in this land already. Fr. King. You shall be soon despatch'd, with fair conditions: A night is but small breath, and little pause, [Exeunt. ACT III. Enter CHORus. Chor. Thus with imagin'd wing our swift scene flies, In motion of no less celerity Than that of thought. Suppose, that you have seen With silken streamers the young Phoebus fanning. To sounds confus'd: behold the threaden sails, Holding due course to Harfleur. Follow, follow! These cull'd and choice-drawn cavaliers to France? With fatal mouths gaping on girded Harfleur. Suppose, the ambassador from the French comes back; Tells Harry-that the king doth offer him The offer likes not: and the nimble gunner rivage,] The bank or shore. [Exit. to sternage of this navy;] The stern being the hinder part of the ship, the meaning is, let your minds follow close after the navy. Stern, however, appears to have been anciently synonymous to rudder. linstock-] The staff to which the match is fixed when ordnance is fired. Alarums. SCENE I. The same. Before Harfleur. Enter King HENRY, EXETER, BEDFORD, GLOSTER, and Soldiers, with Scaling Ladders. K. Hen. Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; Or close the wall up with our English dead! rage: But when the blast of war blows in our ears, O'erhang and jutty' his confounded base," Have, in these parts, from morn till even fought, —jutty-] The force of the verb to jutty, when applied to a rock projecting into the sea, is not felt by those who are unaware that this word anciently signified a mole raised to withstand the encroachment of the tide. Jutty-heads, in sea language, are platforms standing on piles, near the docks, and projecting without the wharfs, for the more convenient docking and undocking ships. - his confounded base,] His worn or wasted base. |