Exe. Your brother kings and monarchs of the earth Do all expect that you should rouse yourself, West. They know your grace hath cause, and means, and might : So hath your highness; never king of England Had nobles richer, and more loyal subjects; Whose hearts have left their bodies here in England, And lie pavilion'd in the fields of France. Cant. O, let their bodies follow, my dear liege, With blood, and sword, and fire, to win your right; In aid whereof, we of the spiritualty Will raise your highness such a mighty sum, Bring in to any of your ancestors. K. Hen. We must not only arm to invade the French, But lay down our proportions to defend Against the Scot, who will make road upon us With all advantages. Cant. They of those marches, gracious sovereign, Shall be a wall sufficient to defend Our inland from the pilfering borderers. K. Hen. We do not mean the coursing snatchers only, But fear the main intendment of the Scot, Galling the gleaned land with hot essays; Girding with grievous siege castles and towns: That England, being empty of defence, Hath shook and trembled at the ill neighbourhood. Cant. She hath been then more fear'd than harm'd, my liege : For hear her but exampled by herself,- The king of Scots; whom she did send to France, With sunken wreck and sumless treasuries. Then with Scotland first begin; For once the eagle England being in prey, Yet that is but a crush'd necessity; Since we have locks to safeguard necessaries, And pretty traps to catch the petty thieves. While that the armed hand doth fight abroad, The advised head defends itself at home: For government, through high, and low, and lower, Put into parts, doth keep in one concent; Congreeing in a full and natural close, Like music. Therefore doth Heaven divide The state of man in divers functions, Setting endeavour in continual motion; To which is fixed, as an aim or butt, Obedience: for so work the honey-bees; Creatures, that, by a rule in nature, teach The act of order to a peopled kingdom. They have a king, and officers of sorts: Where some, like magistrates, correct at home; Others, like merchants, venture trade abroad; Others, like soldiers, armed in their stings, Make boot upon the summer's velvet buds; Which pillage they with merry march bring home To the tent-royal of their emperor : Who, busied in his majesties, surveys The singing masons building roofs of gold; The civil citizens kneading up the honey; The poor mechanic porters crowding in Their heavy burdens at his narrow gate; The sad-eyed justice, with his surly hum, Delivering o'er to executors pale The lazy yawning drone. I this infer,That many things, having full reference To one concent, may work contrariously; As many arrows, loosed several ways, Come to one mark; as many ways meet in one town; As many fresh streams meet in one salt sea; And you withal shall make all Gallia shake. K. Hen. Call in the messengers sent from the Dauphin. [Exit an Attendant. The KING ascends Now are we well resolved: and, by God's help, O'er France and all her almost kingly dukedoms, Enter Ambassadors of France. Now are we well prepared to know the pleasure Unto whose grace our passion is as subject, Amb. That can be with a nimble galliard won: Exe. Tennis-balls, my liege. K. Hen. We are glad the Dauphin is so pleasant with us; His present, and your pains, we thank you for : That all the courts of France will be disturb'd |