which must proportion the losses we have borne, the subjects we have lost, the disgrace we have digested which, in weight to re-answer, his pettiness would bow under. For our losses, his exchequer is too poor; for the effusion of our blood, the muster of his kingdom too faint a number; and for our disgrace, his own person, kneeling at our feet, but a weak and worthless satisfaction. To this add defiance; and, tell him, for conclusion, he hath betrayed his followers, whose condemnation is pronounced. So far my King and master; so much my office.

K. Hen. What is thy name? I know thy quality. Mont, Moutjoy.

K. Hen. Thou dost thy office fairly. Turn thee back,

And tell thy King, I do not seek him now;
But could be willing to march on to Calais
Withouth impeachment: for, to say the sooth,
(Though 'tis no wisdom to confess so much
Unto an enemy of craft and vantage,)

My people are with sickness much enfeebled;
My numbers lessen'd; and those few I have,
Almost no better than so many French;
Who when they were in health, I tell thee,
herald,

I thought, upon one pair of English legs
Did march three Frenchmen, Yet, forgive

me, God, That I do brag thus! this your air of France Hath blown that vice in me; I must repent. Go, therefore, tell thy master, here I am; My ransom, is this frails and worthless trunk; My army, but a weak and sickly guard; Yet, God before, tell him we will come on,

Though France himself, and such another

neighbour,

Stand in our way. There's for thy labour,
Montjoy.

Go, bid thy master well advise himself:
If we may pass, we will; if we be hinder'd,
We shall your tawny ground with your red blood
Discolour: and so, Montjoy, fare you well.
The sum of all our answer is but this :
We would not seek a battle as we are;
Nor, as we are, we say, we will not shun it
So tell your master.
Mont. I shall deliver so. Thanks to your
Highness. (Exit MONTJOY.
Glo. I hope, they will not come upon us now.
K. Hen. We are in God's hand, brother, not
in theirs.

March to the bridge; it now draws toward night:

Beyond the river we'll encamp ourselves;
And on to-morrow bid them march away.

SCENE VII.

[Exeunt,

The French Camp near Agincourt.

Enter the Constable of France, the Lord RAMBURES, the Duke of ORLEANS, Dauphin, and others.

Con. Tut! I have the best armour of the world, 'Would it were day!

Orl. You have an excellent armour; but let my horse have his due.

Con. It is the best horse of Europe.

Orl. Will it never be morning?

Dau. My Lord of Orleans, and my Lord high Constable, you talk of horse and armour,

Orl. You are as well provided of both, as any Prince in the world.

I will

Dau. What a long night is this! not change my horse with any that treads but on four pasterns. Ca, ha! He bounds from the earth, as if his entrails. were hairs; le cheval volant, the Pegasus, qui a les narines de feu! When I bestride him; I soar, I am a hawk: he trots the air; the earth sings when he touches it; the basest horn of his hoof is more musical than the pipe of Hermes.

Orl. He's of the colour of the nutmeg. Dau. And of the heat of the ginger. It is a beast for Perseus: he is pure air and fire; and the dull elements of earth and water never appear. in him, but only in patient stillness, while his Fider mounts him; he is, indeed, a horse; and all other jades you may 'call

- beasts.

Con. Indeed, my Lord, it is a most absolute and excellent horse.

Dau. It is the prince of palfreys; his neigh is like the bidding of a monarch, and his countenance enforces homage.

Orl. No more, cousin.

Dau. Nay, the man hath no wit, that cannot, from the rising of the lark to the lodging of the lamb, vary deserved 'praise on my palfrey: it is a theme as fluent as the sea; turn the sands into cloquent tongues, and my horse is argument for them all: 'tis a subject for a sovereign to reason on, and for a sovereign's sovereign to ride on; and for the world (familiar to us, and unknown,] to lay apart their particular functions and wonder at him. I once writ a

sonnet

in his praise, and began thus: Wonder of na

ture

Orl, I have heard a sonnet begin so to one's mistress.

Dau. Then did they imitate that which I composed to my courser; for my horse is my

mistress.

Orl. Your mistress bears well.

Dau. Me well; which is the prescript praise and perfection of a good and particular mistress. Con. Ma foi! the other day, methought, your mistress shrewdly shook your back.

Dau. So perhaps, did your's.

Con. Mine was not bridled.

Dau. O then, belike, she was old and gentle; and you rode, like a kerne of Ireland, your French hose off, and in your strait trossers. Con. You have good judgement in horsemanship.

Dau. Be warn'd by me then: they that ride so, and ride not warily, fall into foul bogs; I had rather have my horse to my mistress.

Con. I had as lief have my mistress a jade. Dau. I tell thee, Constable, my mistress wears her own hair.

Con, I could make as true a boast as that, if 1 had a sow to my mistress.

Dau. Le chien est retourné à son propre vomissement, et la truie lavée au bourbier: thou makest use of any thing.

Con. Yet do I not use my horse for my mistress; or any such proverb, so little kin to the purpose.

Ram. My Lord Constable, the armour, that I saw in your tent to-night, are those stars, or suns, upon it?

Con. Stars, my Lord.

Dau. Some of them will fall to-morrow, I hope.

Con. And yet my sky shall not want.

Dau. That may be, for you bear a many superfluously; and 'twere more honour, some were

away.

Con. Even as your horse bears your praises; who would trot as well, were some of your brags dismounted.

Dau. 'Would, I were able to load him with his desert! Will it never be day? I will trot tomorrow a mile, and my way shall be paved with English faces.

Con. I will not say so, for fear I should be faced out of my way: But I would it were morning, for I would fain be about the ears of the English.

Ram. Who will go to hazard with me for twenty English prisoners?

Con. You must first go yourself to hazard, ere you have them.

Dau. 'Tis midnight, I'll go arm myself.

[Exit.

Orl. The Dauphin longs for morning. Ram. He longs to eat the English. Con. I think, he will eat all he kills. Orl. By the white hand of my lady, he's a gallant Prince.

Con. Swear by her foot, that she may tread out the oath.

Orl. He is, simply, the most active gentleman, of France.

Con. Doing is activity: and he will still be doing.

Orl. He never did harm, that I heard of.