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Nym. They say, he cried out of sack.
Quick. Ay, that a' did.

Bard. And of women.

Quick. Nay, that a' did not.

Boy. Yes, that 'a did; and said, they were devils incarnate.

Quick. 'A could never abide carnation; 'twas a colour he never lik'd.

Boy. 'A said once, the devil would have him about women.

Quick. 'A did in some sort, indeed, handle women but then he was rheumatick; and talk'd of the whore of Babylon.

Boy. Do you not remember, 'a saw a flea stick upon Bardolph's nose; and 'a said, it was a black soul burning in hell-fire?

Bard. Well, the fuel is gone, that maintain'd that fire: that's all the riches I got in his service.

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Nym. Shall we shog off? the King will be gone from Southampton.

Pist. Come, let's away.

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My love, give me,

thy lips.

Look to my chattels, and my moveables:
Let senses rule; the word is, Pitch and pay;
Trust none;

For oaths are straws, men's faiths are wafercakes,

And hold-fast is the only dog, my duck;
Therefore, caveto be thy counsellor.

Go, clear thy chrystals. Yoke-fellows in arms,
Let us to France! like horse-leeches, my boys;
To suck, to suck, the very blood to suck!
Boy. And that is but unwholesome food, they

say.

Pist. Touch her soft mouth, and march.
VOL. X.

3

Bard. Farewell, hostess.

[Kissing her.

Nym. I cannot kiss, that is the humour of it;

but adieu.

Pist. Let housewifery appear; keep close, I thee command.

Quick. Farewell; adieu.

SCENE

Exeunt.

IV.

France. A room in the French King's Palace.

Enter the French King attended; the Dauphin, the Duke of BURGUNDY, the Constable, and

others.

Fr. King. Thus come the English with full

power upon us;

And more than carefully it us concerns,

To answer royally in our defences.

Therefore the Dukes of Berry, and of Bretagne, Of Brabant, and of Orleans, shall make forth, And you, Prince Dauphin,

patch,

with all swift des

To line, and new repair, our towns of war,
With men of courage, and with means defendant:
For England his approaches makes as fierce,
As waters to the sucking of a gulf..

It fits us then, to be as provident

As fear may teach us, out of late examples
Left by the fatal and neglected English
Upon our fields.

Dau. My most redoubted father,

It is most meet we arm us 'gainst the foe: For peace itself should not so dull a kingdom, (Though war, nor no known quarrel, were in question,)

But that defences, musters, preparations,,

Should be maintain'd, assembled, and collected,
As were a war in expectation.

Therefore, I say, 'tis meet we all go forth,
To view the sick and feeble parts of France:
And let us do it with no shew of fear;

No, with no more, than if we heard that England
Were busied with a Whitsun morris-dance:
For, my good Liege, she is so idly king'd,
Her scepier so fantastically borne

By a vain, giddy, shallow, humourous youth,
That fear attend her not.

Con. O peace, Prince Dauphin!

You are too much mistaken in this King:
Question your Grace the late ambassadors, -
With what great state he heard their embassy,
How well supplied with noble counsellors,
How modest in exception, and, withal,
How terrible in constant resolution,
And you shall find, his vanities forespent
Were but the outside of the Roman Brutus,
Covering discretion with a coat of folly;
As gardeners do with ordure hide those roots
That shall first spring, and he most delicate.
Dau. Well, 'tis not so, my Lord high Con-
stable,

Cut though we think it so, it is no matter;
In cases of defence, 'tis best to weigh
The enemy more mighty than he seems,
So the proportions of defence are fill'd;
Which, of a weak and niggardly projection,
Doth, like a miser, spoil his coat, with scanting
A little cloth.

Fr. King. Think we King Harry strong;

And, Princes, look, you strongly arm to meet

him.

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The kindred of him hath been flesh'd upon us;
And he is bred out of that bloody strain,
That haunted us in our familiar paths:
Witness our too much memorable shaine,
When Cressy battle fatally was struck,
And all our Princes captiv'd, by the hand
Of that black naine, Edward black Prince of
Wales;

Whiles that his mountain sire,

standing,

on mountain

Up in the air, crown'd with the golden sun,
Saw his heroical seed, and smil'd to see him
Mangle the work of nature, and deface

The patterns that by God and by French fathers
Had twenty years been made. This is a stem
Of that victorious stock; and let us fear
The native mightiness and fate of him.

Enter a Messenger.

Mess. Ambassadors from Henry King of Eng

land

Do crave admittance to your Majesty.

Fr. King. We'll give them present audience.
Go and bring them.

[Exeunt Mess. and certain Lords. You see, this chase is hotly follow'd, friends. Dau. Turn head, and stop pursuit: for coward dogs

Most spend their mouths, when what they seem to threaten,

Runs far before them. Good my Sovereign,

Take up the English short; and let them know
Of what a monarchy you are the head:
Self-love, my Liege, is not so vile a sin,
As self-neglecting.

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,
That you divest yourself, and lay apart
The borrow'd glories, that, by gift of heaven,
By law of nature, and of nations, 'long
To him, and to his heirs; namely, the crown,
And all wide-stretched honours that pertain,
By custom and the ordinance of times,

Unto the crown of France. That you may know,
'Tis no sinister, nor no aukward claim,
Pick'd from the worm-holes of long-vanish'd
days,

Nor from the dust of old oblivion rak'd,
He sends you this most memorable line,
[Gives a paper.
In every branch truly demonstrative;
Willing you, overlook this pedigree:
And, when you find him evenly deriv'd
From his most fam'd of famous ancestors,
Edward the third, he bids yon then resign.
Your crown and kingdom, indirectly held
From him the native and true challenger.
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 way

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