Whom, like a school-boy, you may over-awe. Win. Gloster, whate'er we like, thou art protector; And lookest to command the prince, and realm. Thy wife is proud; she holdeth thee in awe, More than God, or religious church-men, may. 40 Glo. Name not religion, for thou lov'st the flesh; And ne'er throughout the year to church thou go'st, Except it be to pray against thy foes. Bed. Cease, cease these jars, and rest your minds in peace! Let's to the altar:-Heralds, wait on us : Instead of gold, we'll offer up our arms; Since arms avail not, now that Henry's dead.- Posterity, await for wretched years, When at their mothers' moist eyes babes shall suck; Our isle be made a nourish of salt tears, And none but women left to wail the dead. Henry the fifth! thy ghost I invocate; Prosper this realm, keep it from civil broils I Enter a Messenger. 50 Mess. My honourable lords, health to you all! Sad tidings bring I to you out of France, Of loss, of slaughter, and discomfiture: 60 Bed. Bed. What say'st thou, man, before dead Henry's corse? Speak softly; or the loss of those great towns Will make him burst his lead, and rise from death. Glo. Is Paris lost? is Roan yielded up? If Henry were recall'd to life again, These news would cause him once more yield the ghost. Exe. How were they lost? what treachery was us’d? Mess. No treachery; but want of men, and money. Among the soldiers this is muttered That here you maintain several factions; 70 And, whilst a field should be dispatch'd and fought, One would have ling'ring wars, with little cost; Exe. Were our tears wanting to this funeral, 80 2 Enter Enter to them another Messenger. 1 Mess. Lords, view these letters, full of bad mis chance. France is revolted from the English quite; Except some petty towns of no import : The dauphin Charles is crowned king in Rheims; 99 [Exit. Exe. The dauphin crowned king! all fly to him! O, whither shall we fly from this reproach ? Glo. We will not fly, but to our enemies' throats :→→ Bedford, if thou be slack, I'll fight it out. Bed. Gloster, why doubt'st thou of my forward ness? An army have I muster'd in my thoughts, Enter a third Messenger. 100 3 Mess. My gracious lords-to add to your la ments, Wherewith you now bedew king Henry's hearse- Betwixt the stout lord Talbot and the French. Win. What! wherein Talbot overcame? is't so ? 3 Mess. O, no; wherein lord Talbot was o'er, thrown: The circumstance I'll tell you more at large. The tenth of August last, this dreadful lord, Bij 110 Retiring Retiring from the siege of Orleans, Having full scarce six thousand in his troop, He wanted pikes to set before his archers; 120 To keep the horsemen off from breaking in. 130 140 Bed. Bed. Is Talbot slain? then I will slay myself, 3 Mess. O no, he lives; but is took prisoner, And lord Scales with him, and lord Hungerford: Most of the rest slaughter'd, or took, likewise. Bed. His ransom there is none but I shall pay : I'll hale the dauphin headlong from his throne, His crown shall be the ransom of my friend; Four of their lords I'll change for one of ours.— Farewel, my masters; to my task will I; Bonfires in France forthwith I am to make, To keep our great saint George's feast withal: Ten thousand soldiers with me I will take, Whose bloody deeds shall make all Europe quake. 150 3 Mess. So you had need; for Orleans is besieg'd; The English army is grown weak and faint: The earl of Salisbury craveth supply; And hardly keeps his men from mutiny, Since they, so few, watch such a multitude. 160 Exe. Remember, lords, your oaths to Henry sworn ; Either to quell the dauphin utterly, Or bring him in obedience to your yoke. Bed. I do remember it; and here take leave, To go about my preparation. [Exit. Glo. I'll to the Tower with all the haste I can, To view the artillery and munition; And then I will proclaim young Henry king. [Exit, |