For yet a many of your horseman peer, Mont. The day is your's. K. llen. Praised be God, and not our strength, for it! What is this castle call'd, that stands hard by? K. Hen. Then call we this-the field of Agin-I Fought on the day of Crispin Crispianus. Flu. Your grandfather of famous memory, an't please your majesty, and your great-uncle Edward the plack prince of Wales, as I have read in the chronicles, fought a most prave pattle here in France. K. Hen. They did, Fluellen. and myself were down together, I plucked this glove from his helm: if any man challenge this, he is a friend to Alençon and an enemy to our person; if thou encounter any such, apprehend him, an thou dost love me. Flu. Your grace does me as great honours, as can be desired in the hearts of his subjects: would fain see the man, that has but two legs, that shall find himself aggriefed at this glove, that is all; but I would fain see it once; an please Got of his grace, that I might see it. K. Hen. Knowest thou Gower? Flu. He is my dear friend, an please yon. K. Hen. Pray thee, go seek hin, and bring him to my tent. Flu. I will fetch him. Flu. Your majesty says very true: If your majesties is remembered of it, the Welshman did goot service in a garden where leeks did grow, wearing leeks in their Monmouth caps; which, Follow Fluellen closely at the heels: your majesty knows, to this hour is an honour-The glove, which I have given him for a favour, able padge of the service; and, I do believe, May, haply, purchase him a box o'the ear; your majesty takes no scorn to wear leek upon It is the soldier's: I, by bargain, should Saint Tavy's day. Wear it myself. Follow, good cousin Warwick: K. Hen. I wear it for a memorable honour: For I am Welsh, you know, good countryman. Flu. All the water in Wye cannot wash your majesty's Welsh plood out of your pody, I can tell you that: Got pless it and preserve it, as long as it pleases his grace, and his majesty too! K. Hen. Thanks, good my countryman. Flu. By Cheshu, I am your majesty's countryman, I care not who know it; I will confess it to all the 'orld: I need not to be ashamed of your majesty, praised be God, so long as your majesty is an honest man. K. Hen. God keep me so !-Our heralds go with him; Bring me just notice of the numbers dead On both our parts--Call yonder fellow hither. [Points to WILLIAMS. Exeunt MONTJOY and others. Ere. Soldier, you must come to the king. K. Hen. Soldier, why wear'st thou that glove in thy cap? Will. An't please your majesty, 'tis the gage of one that I should fight withal, if he be alive. K. Hen. An Englishman? Will. An't please your majesty, a rascal, that swaggered with me last night: who, if 'a live, and ever dare to challenge this glove, I have sworn to take him a box o'the ear: or, if I can see my glove in his cap, (which he swore, as he was a soldier, he would wear, if alive,) I will strike it out soundly. K. Hen. What think you, captain Fluellen; is it fit this soldier keep his oath ? Flu. He is a craven and a villain else, an't please your majesty, in my conscience. K. Hen. It may be, his enemy is a gentleman of great sort, quite from the answer of his degree. If that the soldier strike him, (as, I judge Go you with me, uncle of Exeter. SCENE VIII.-Before King HENRY'S Pa vilon. Enter GoWER and WILLIAMS. Will. I warrant it is to kuight you, captain. Enter FLUELLEN. Flu. Got's will and his pleasure, captain, I peseech you now, come apace to the king: there is more goot toward you, peradventure, than is in your knowledge to dream of. Will. Sir, know you this glove? Flu. Know the glove? I know the glove is a glove. Will. I know this; and thus I challenge it. [Strikes him. Flu. 'Sblud, an arrant traitor, as any's in the universal 'orld, or in France, or in England. Gow. How now, Sir? you villain! Will. Do you think I'll be forsworn? Flu. Stand away, captain Gower; give treason his payment into plows, I warrant you. Will. I am no traitor. I will Flu. That's a lie in thy throat.-I charge yon in his majesty's name, apprehend him; he's a friend of the duke of Alençon's. Enter WARWICK and GLOSTER. War. How now, how now! what's the matter ? Flu. Though he be as goot a gentleman as the tevil is, as Lucifer and Belzebub himself, it is necessary, look your grace, that he keep his vow and his oath; if he be perjured, see Flu. My lord of Warwick, here is (praise-t you now, his reputation is as arrant a villain, be Got for it!) a most contagious treason come and a Jack-sauce, as ever his plack shoe trod to light, look you, as you shall desire in a sum upon Got's ground and his earth, in my cousci-mer's day. Here is his majesty. ence, la. K. Hen. Then keep thy vow, sirrah, when thou meet'st the fellow. Enter King HENRY and EXETER. K. Hen. How now! what's the matter? Flu. My liege, here is a villain and a traitor, that, look your grace, has struck the glove which your majesty is take out of the helmet of Will. So I will, my liege, as I live. K. Hen. Call him hither to me, soldier. [Ecit. K. Hen. Here, Fluellen; wear thou this favour for me, and stick it in thy cap: When Alençon Will. My liege, this was my glove; here is the fellow of it: and he, that I gave it to in change, promised to wear it in his cap; I pro. mised to strike him, if he did: I met this man with my glove in his cap, and I have been as good as my word. Flu. Your majesty hear now, (saving your majesty's maubood,) what an arrant, rasunily, 460 beggarly, lowsy knave it is: I hope, your majesty is pear me testimony, and witness, and avouchments, that this is the glove of Alençon, that your majesty gave me, in your conscience now. K. Hen. Give me thy glove, soldier: Look, here is the fellow of it. 'Twas I, indeed, thou promised'st to strike; and thou hast given me most bitter terms. Flu. An please your majesty, let his neck answer for it, if there is any martial law in the 'orld. K. Hen. How canst thou make me satisfaction ? Will. All offences, my liege, come from the heart: never came any from mine, that might offend your majesty. K. Hen. It was ourself thou didst abuse. Will. Your majesty came not like yourself: you appeared to me but as a common man; witness the night, your garments, your lowliness; and what your highness suffered under that shape, I beseech you take it for your own fault, and not mine: for had you been as I took you for, 1 made no offence; therefore, I beseech your highness, pardon me. K. Hen. Here, uncle Exeter, fill this glove And give it to this fellow.-Keep it, fellow; Flu. By this day and this light, the fellow has mettle enough in his pelly:-Hold, there is twelve pence for you, and I pray yon to serve Got, and keep you out of prawls, and prabbles, and quarrels, and dissensions, and, I warrant you, it is the petter for you. Will. I will none of your money. Flu. It is with a goot will; I can tell you, it will serve you to mend your shoes: Come, wherefore should you be so pashful? your shoes is not so goot: 'tis a goot silling, I warrant you, or I will change it. Enter an English HERALD. K. Hen. Now, herald; are the dead num- Her. Here is the number of the slaughter'd Exe. Charles duke of Orleans, nephew to the John duke of Bourbon, and lord Bouciqualt : That in the field lie slain of princes, in this And nobles bearing banners, there lie dead Five hundred were but yesterday dubb'd So that, in these ten thousand they have lost, And gentleinen of blood and quality. John duke of Alençon; Antony duke of Bra- The brother to the duke of Burgundy; Beaumont and Marle, Vaudemont and Lestrale, Exe. 'Tis wonderful! K. Hen. Come, go we in procession to the And be it death proclaimed through our host, Flu. Is it not lawful, an please your majesty, to tell how many is killed? K. Hen. Yes, captain; but with this acknowledgement, That God fought for us. Flu. Yes, my conscience, he did us great goot. K. Hen. Do we all holy rites; Let there be sung Non nobis, and Te Deum. men. ACT V. Enter CHORUS. Chor. Vouchsafe to those that have not read the story, : That I may prompt them and of such as have, Whose shouts and claps out-voice the deep Which, like a mighty whiffer + 'fore the king, pride; Giving full trophy, signal, and ostent, (As, in good time, he may,) from Ireland Bringing rebellion broached ÿ on his sword, • The king (says the Chronicles,) caused the psa m Enter FLUELLEN and GOWER. Gow. Nay, that's right; but why wear you your leek to-day? Saint Davy's day is past. Flu. There is occasions and causes why and wherefore in all things: I will tell you, as my friend, captain Gower; The rascally, scald, beggarly, lowsy, pragging kuave, Pistol, which you and yourself, and all the 'orld, know to be no petter than a fellow, look you now, of no merits, he is come to me, and prings me pread and salt yesterday, look you, and bid me eat my leek it was in a place where I could not breed no contentions with him; but I will be so pold as to wear it in my cap till I see him once again, and then I will tell him a little piece of my desires. Enter PISTOL. Gow. Why, here he comes, swelling like a turkey-cock. Flu. 'Tis no matter for his swellings, nor his turkey-cocks.-Got pless you, ancient Pistol, you scurvey, lowsy knave, Got bless you! Pist. Ha! art thou Bedlam? dost thou thirst, base Trojan, To have me fold up Parca's fatal web?t Flu. I peseech you heartily, scurvy, lowsy knave, at my desires, and my requests, and my petitions, to eat, look you, this leek; because, look you, you do not love it, nor your affections, and your appetites, and your digestions, does not agree with it, I would desire you to eat it. Pist. Not for Cadwallader, and all his goats. Flu. There is one goat for you. [Strikes him.]| Will you be so goot, scald knave, as eat it? Pist. Base Trojan, thou shalt die. Flu. You say very true, scald knave, when Got's will is: I will desire you to live in the inean time, and eat your victuals; come, there is sauce for it. [Striking him again.] You called me yesterday, mountain-squire; but I will make you to day a squire of low degree. I pray you fall to; if you can mock a leek, you can eat a leek. Gow. Enough, captain; you have astonished t him. Flu. I say, I will make him eat some part of my leek, or I will peat his pate four days:Pite, I pray you; it is goot for your green wound, and your ploody coxcomb. Pist. Must I bite ? Flu. Yes, certainly; and out of doubt, and out of questions too, and ambiguities. Pist. By this leek, I will most horribly revenge; 1 eat, and eke I swear Henry did not strike a blow in France, for two years after the decisive battle of Agincourt; but immediately concluded a truce for that period.---Hume. "Dost thou desire to have me put thee to death?" * Stunned. Pist. Me a groat! Pist. Yes, verily, and in truth, you shall take it; or I have another leek in my pocket, which you shall eat. Pist. I take thy groat, in earnest of revenge. Flu. If I owe you any thing, I will pay you in cudgels; you shall be a woodmonger, and buy nothing of me but cudgels. God be wi' you, and keep you, and heal your pate. [Exit. Pist. All bell shall stir for this. Gow. Go, go; you are a counterfeit cowardly knave. Will you mock at an ancient tradition, begun upon an honourable respect, and worn as a memorable trophy of predeceased valour,and dare not avouch in your deeds any of your words? I have seen you gleeking • and galling at this gentleman twice or thrice. You thought because he could not speak English in the na tive garb, he could not therefore bandle an En glish cudgel: you find it otherwise; and henceforth let a Welsh correction teach you a good English condition. + Fare ye well. (Exit. Pist. Doth fortune play the huswife with me now? News have 1, that my Nell is dead i'the spital And there my rendezvous is quite cut off. [Exit. SCENE II.-Troyes in Champagne.-An Apartment in the French King's Palace. Enter, at one door, King HENRY, BEDFORD, GLOSTER, EXETER, WARWICK, WESTMORKLAND, and other Lords; at another; the FRENCH KING, Queen ISABEL, the Princess KATHARINE, Lords, Ladies, &c. the Duke of BURGUNDY, and his Train. K. Hen. Peace to this meeting, wherefore we are met! Unto our brother France, and to our sister, Health and fair time of day, joy and good wishes [rine; To our most fair and princely cousin KathaAnd (as a branch and member of this royalty, By whom this great assembly is contriv'd,) we do salute you, duke of Burgundy ;Aud princes Freuch, and peers, health to you all ! Fr. King. Right joyous are we to behold your face, Most worthy brother England; fairly met: Q. Isa. So happy be the issue, brother Eng Have lost their quality; and that this day Q. Isa. You English princes all, I do salute you. Bur. My duty to you both, on equal love, Great kings of France and England! That I have laboured With all my wits, my pains, and strong endeavours, To bring your most imperial majesties Your mightiness on both parts best can witness. And all her husbandry doth lie on heaps, Her vine, the merry cheerer of the heart, burs, Losing both beauty and utility. Defective in their natures, grow to wildness; Have lost, or do not learn, for want of time, K. Hen. If, duke of Burgundy, you would the peace, And take with you free power, to ratify, ter, Q. Isa. Our gracious brother, I will go with them; Haply a woman's voice may do some good, She is our capital demand, compris'd [Exeunt all but HENRY, KATHARINE, K. Hen. Fair Katharine, and most fair! Will you vouchsafe to teach a soldier terms Such as will enter at a lady's ear, And plead his love-suit to her gentle heart? Kath. Your majesty shall mock at me; I can not speak your England. K. Hen. O fair Katharine, if you will love me soundly with your French heart, I will be glad to hear you confess it brokenly with your English tongue. Do you like me, Kate ? Kath. Pardonnez moy, I cannot tell vat islike me. K. Hen. An angel is like you, Kate; and you are like an angel. Kath. Que dit-il? que jesuis semblable à les anges? Alice. Ouy, vrayment, (sauf vostre grace) ainsi dit il. K. Hen. I said so, dear Katharine; and I must not blush to affirm it. Kath. O bon Dieu! les langues des hom. mes sont pleines des tromperies. K Hen. What says she, fair one? that the longues of men are full of deceits? Alice. Ouy; dat de tongues of de mans is be full of deceits: dat is de princess. K. Hen. The princess is the better Englishwoman. I'faith, Kate, my wooing is fit for thy understanding: I am glad thou can'st speak no better English; for, if thou could'st, thou would'st find me such a plain king, that thou would'st think I had sold my farm to buy my crown. I know no ways to mince it in love, but directly to say-I love you: then, if you urge me further than to say-Do you in faith 1 I wear out my suit. Give me your answer; i'faith, do; and so clap hands and a bargain: How say you, lady? Kath. Sauf vostre honneur, me understand well. K. Hen. Marry, if you would put me to verses, or to dance for your sake, Kate, why you nor measure; and for the other, I have no undid me for the one, I have neither words strength in measure, yet a reasonable measure in strength. If I could win a lady at leapfrog, or by vauiting into my saddle with my armour on my back, under the correction of bragging be it spoken, I should quickly leap into a wife. Or, if I might buffet for my love, or bound my horse for her favours, I could lay on like a butcher, and sit like a jack-an-apes, never off but, before God, I cannot look greenly, nor gasp out my eloquence, nor I have no cunning in protestation; only downright oaths, which I never use till urged, nor never break for urging. If thou canst love a fellow Exe- of this temper, Kate, whose face is not worth sun-burning, that never looks in bis glass for Glos-love of any thing he secs there, let thine eye be thy cook. I speak to thee plain soldier: li thou canst love me for this, take me: if not, to say to thee, that I shall die, is true; but for thy love, by the Lord, no; yet I love thee too. K. Hen. Well then, the peace, Which you before so urg'd, lies in his answer. Fr. King. I have but with a cursorary eye O'er-glanc'd the articles: pleaseth your grace To appoint some of your council presently To sit with us once more, with better heed To re-survey them, we will, suddenly, Pass our accept, and peremptory answer. K. Hen. Brother, we shall.-Go, uncle ter, And brother Clarence, and you, brother ter,Warwick and Huntingdon, go with the king: + Ploughshare. up the roots. • Barrier. 1 To deracinate is to force • In dancing. I. e. Like a young lover, awwwardly. And while thou livest, dear Kate, take a fellow | By mine honour in true English, I love thee, of plain and uncoined constancy; for he Kate by which honour I dare not swear thou perforce must do thee right, because he hath lovest me; yet my blood begins to flatter me not the gift to woo in other places: for these that thou dost, notwithstanding the poor and fellows of infinite tongue, that can rhyme them-untempering effect of my visage. Now bese es into ladies' favours,-they do always shrew my father's ambition! he was thinking reason themselves out again. What! a speaker of civil wars when he got me; therefore was i is but a prater; a rhyme is but a ballad. A created with stubborn outside, with an as good leg will fall: + a straight back will stoop:pect of iron, that, when I come to woo ladies a black beard will turn white; a curled pate I fright them. But in faith, Kate, the elder will grow bald; a fair face will wither; a full I wax, the better I shall appear: my comfort eye will wax hollow but a good heart, Kate, is, that old age, that ill layer-up of beauty, cau is the sun and moon; or rather the sun, and do no more spoil upon my face: thou hast me, not the moon; for it shines bright, and never if thou hast me, at the worst; and thou shalt changes, but keeps his course truly. If thou wear me, if thou wear me, better and better; would have such a one, take me: And take And therefore tell me, most fair Katharine, me, take a soldier: take a soldier, take a king will you have me: Put off your maiden And what sayest thou then to my love? speak, blushes; avouch the thoughts of your heart my fair, and fairly, I pray thee. with the looks of an empress; take me by the band, and say-Harry of England, I am thine: which word thou shalt no sooner bless mine K. Hen. No; it is not possible you should ear withal, but I will tell thee aloud-England love the enemy of France, Kate: but in loving is thine, Ireland is thine, France is thine, me, you should love the friend of France; for and Henry Plantagenet is thine; who, though I I love France so well, that I will not part with speak it before his face, if he be not fellow a village of it; I will have it all mine: and, with the best king, thou shalt find the best king Kate, when France is mine, and I am your's, of good fellows. Come, your answer in brothen your's is France, and you are mine. ken music; for thy voice is music, and thy Kath. I cannot tell vat is dat. English broken: therefore, queen of all, Katharine, break thy mind to me in broken English. Wilt thou have me? Kath. Is it possible dat I should love de enemy of France ? K. Hen. No, Kate? I will tell thee in French; which, I am sure, will hang upon my tongue like a new-married wife about her husband's neck, hardly to be shook off. Quand j'ay la possession de France, et quand vous avez le Possession de moi, (let me see, what then? Saint Dennis be my speed !)-done vostre est France, et vous estes mienne. It is as easy for me, Kate, to conquer the kingdom, as to speak so much more French: I shall never move thee in French: unless it be to laugh at me. Kath. Sauf vostre honneur, le François quevous parlez, est meilleur que l'Anglois le quel je parle. K. Hen. No, 'faith, 'tis not, Kate but thy speaking of my tongue, and I thine, most truly falsely, must needs be granted to be much at one. But, Kate, dost thou understand thus much English? Canst thou love me? Kath. I connot tell. Kath. Dat is, as it shall please de roy mon pere. K. Hen. Nay, it will please him well, Kate; it shall please him, Kate. Kath. Den it shall also content me. K. Hen. Upon that I will kiss your hand, and I call you--my queen. Kath. Laissez, mon siegneur, laissez, lais sez: ma foy, je ne veux point que vous aba ssez vostre grandeur, en baisant la main d'une vostre indigne serviteure; excusez moy, je vous supplie, mon tres puissant seigneur. K. Hen. Then I will kiss your lips, Kate. Kath. Les dames, et damoiselles, pour estre baises devant leur nopces il n'est pas le coutume de France. K. Hen. Madam, my interpreter, what says she? Atice. Dat it is not be de fashion pour les ladies of France,--1 cannot tell what is baiser en English. K. Hen. To kiss. Alice. Your Majesty entendre bettre que moy. K. Hen. It is not the fashion for the maids in France to kiss before they are married, would she say? Alice. Ou, vrayment. K. Hen. Can any of your neighbours tell, Kate? I'll ask them. Come, I know, thou lovest me and at night, when you come into your closet, you'll question this gentlewoman about me; and I know, Kate, you will, to her, dispraise those parts in me, that you love with your heart: but, good Kate, mock me mercifully; the rather, gentle princess, because I love thee cruelly. If ever thou be'st mine, K. Hen. O Kate, nice customs curt'sy to Kate, (as I have a saving faith within me, tells great kings. Dear Kate, you and I cannot be me thou shalt,) I get thee with scambling, confined within the weak list of a country's and thou must therefore needs prove a good fashion: we are the makers of manners, Kate; soldier-breeder: Shall not thou and I, be- and the liberty that follows our places, stops tween Saint Dennis and Saint George, com- the mouths of all find-faults; as I will do your's, pound a boy, half French, half English, that for upholding the nice fashion of your country, shall go to Constantinople, and take the Turkin denying me a kiss: therefore, patiently, and by the beard shall we not? what sayest thou, my fair flower-de-luce? Kath. I do not know dat. K. Hen. No; 'tis hereafter to know, but now to promise: do but now promise, Kate, you will endeavour for your French part of such a boy; and, for my English moiety, take the word of a king and a bachelor. How answer you, la plus belle Katharine du monde mon tres chere et divine deesse? Kath. Your majesté 'ave fausse French enough to deceive de most sage demoiselle dat is en France. K. Hen. Now, fie upon my false French! He means, resembling a plain piece of metal which has not yet received any impression. 4 Fall away. Henry V. had been dead 31 years before the Turks became possessed of Constantinople that event took place in 1453. yielding. [Kissing her.] You have witchcraft Bur. God save your majesty! my royal cousin, teach you our princess English? K. Hen. I would have her learn, my fair cousin, how perfectly 1 love her; and that is good English, Bur. Is she not apt? 1. e. Though my face has no power to softca you. † Slight barrier. |