Boy. Yes, that 'a did; and said, they were devils] incarnate.. Quick. 'A could never abide carnation; 'twas a colour he never lik'd. (Though war, nor no known quarrel, were in But that defences, musters, preparations, Boy. 'A said once, the devil would have him 5 As were a war in expectation. about women. Quick. 'A did in some sort, indeed, handle women: but then he was rheumatic; 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? 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 10 Were busied with a Whitsun morris-dance: For, my good liege, she is so idly king'd, Her scepter so fantastically borne Bard. Well, the fuel is gone, that maintain'd that fire: that's all the riches I got in his service. Nym. Shall we shog? the king will be gone 15 from Southampton. Pist. Come, let's away.My love, give me Look to my chattels, and my moveables: For oaths are straws, men's faiths are wafer-cakes, Go, clear thy crystals'.-Yoke-fellows in arms, Boy. And that is but unwholesome food, they] The French King's palace. Enter the French King, the Dauphin, the Duke of Burgundy, and the Constable. Fr. King. Thus come the English with full power upon us; And more than carefully it us concerns, Dau. My most redoubted father, It is most meet we arm us 'gainst the foe: By a vain, giddy, shallow, humorous youth, Con. O peace, prince Dauphin! Dau. Well, 'tis not so, my lord high constable, 35 Fr. King. Think we king Harry strong; And princes, look, you strongly arm to meet him. 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: 40 Witness our too much memorable shame, When Cressy battle fatally was struck, And all our princes captiv'd, by the hand Of that black name, Edward black prince of Wales; [standing, 45 Whiles that his mountain sire,-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 50 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 England 55 Do crave admittance to your majesty. Fr. King. We'll give them present audience.— Go, and bring them. You see this chase is hotly follow'd, friends. Dau. Turn head, and stop pursuit: for coward dogs 1i. e. let prudence govern you. 2 This caution was a very proper one to Mrs. Quickly, who had suffered before by letting Falstaff run in her debt. i. e. dry thine eyes. 4 The 4to to 1608 reads, were troubled. i. e. how diffident and decent in making objections. Most For husbands, fathers, and betrothed lovers, Fr. King. For us, we will consider of thi To-morrow shall you bear our full intent Dau. For the Dauphin, I stand here for him; What to him from England? Fr. King. From our brother England? [jesty.] [Gives the French King a paper. Exe. Bloody-nstraint; for if you hide the crown Even in your hearts, there will he rake for it: Dau. Say, if my father render fair reply, I did present him with those Paris balls. Exe. He'll make your Paris Louvre shake for it, Were it the mistress court of mighty Europe: And, be assur'd, you'll find a difference 30 (As we, his subjects, have in wonder found) Between the promise of his greener days, And these he masters' now; now he weighs time, Even to the utmost grain; which you shall read In your own losses, if he stay in France. 35 Fr.King. To-morrow you shall know our mind [Flourish. Exe. Dispatch us with all speed, lest that our at full. king Come here himself to question our delay; 40 For he is footed in this land already. [conditions: Fr. King. You shall be soon dispatch'd, with fair A night is but small breath, and little pause, To answer matters of this consequence. [Exeunt. Enter Chorus. ACT III. Chor. THUS with imagin'd wing our swift scene flies, In motion of no less celerity To sounds confus'd: behold the threaden sales, Than that of thought. Suppose, that you have seen 55 You stand upon the rivage, and behold The well-appointed king at Hampton pier A city on the inconstant billows dancing; Or past, or not arriv'd to, pith and puissance: Tells Harry-that the king doth offer him SCENE I. Follow your spirit: and, upon this charge, Enter Nym, Bardolph, Pistol, and Boy. Bard. On, on, on, on, on! to the breach, to the breach! Nym. Praythee, corporal', stay; the knocks are 10 too hot; and, for mine own part, I have not a case of lives; the humour of it is too hot, that is the very plain-song of it. Pist. The plain-song is most just: for humours do abound; 15 Knocks go and come; God's vassals drop and die; And sword and shield, [Exit. 20 Enter King Henry, Exeter, Bedford, Gloster, and Soldiers, with Scaling Ladders. K. Henry. Once more unto the breach, dear 25 friends, once more; In bloody field, Doth win immortal fame. Boy. 'Would I were in an ale-house in London! would give all my fame for a pot of ale, and safety. Pist. And I: Flu. 'Splood!-Up to the preaches, you ras30 cals! will you not up to the preaches? Pist. Be merciful, great duke, to men of mould'! Abate thy rage, abate thy manly rage! [chuck! Good bawcock, bate thy rage! use lenity, sweet Nym. These be good huniours!-your honour 35 wins bad humours. Or close the wall up with the English dead! [Exeunt. Boy. As young as I am, I have observ'd these three swashers. I am boy to them all three; but all they three, though they would serve me, could not be man to me; for, indeed, three such anticks 40 do not amount to a man. For Bardolph, he is white-liver'd, and red-fac'd; by the means whereof, 'a faces it out, but fights not. For Pistol,he hath a killing tongue, and a quiet sword; by the means whereof 'a breaks words, and keeps 45 whole weapons. For Nym, he hath heard, that men of few words are the best men; and therefore he scorns to say his prayers, lest 'a should be thought a coward: but his few bad words are match'd with as few good deeds; for a' never broke any man's head but his own; and that was against a post, when he was drunk. They will steal any thing, and call it-purchase. Bardolph stole a lute-case; bore it twelve leagues, and sold it for three-halfpence. Nym and Bardolph are 55 sworn brothers in filching; and in Calais they stole a fire-shovel: I knew, by that piece of service, the men would carry coals.' They would have 'The staff to which the match is fixed when ordnance is fired. 2 Portage, open space, from port, a gate. The meaning is, let the eye appear in the head as cannon through the battlements, or em brasures, of a fortification. i. e. his worn or wasted base. i. e. matter, or subject. We should read lieutenant. 'i. e. a set of lives, of which, when one is worn out, another may serve. 'i. e. to men of earth. That is, bravest. In Shakspeare's age, to carry coals, implied, to endure affronts. 11 me me as familiar with men's pockets, as their gloves or their handkerchiefs: which makes much against my manhood, if I should take from another's pocket, to put into mine; for it is plain pocketing up of wrongs. I must leave them, and seek some 5 better service: their villainy goes against my weak stomach, and therefore I must cast it up. [Erit Boy. Re-enter Fluellen, Gower following. Gower. Captain Fluellen, you must come presently to the mines: the duke of Gloster would 10 speak with you. Flu. To the mines! Tell you the duke, it is not so good to come to the mines: for, look you, the mines are not according to the disciplines of the war; the concavities of it is not sufficient; for, 15 look you, th' athversary (you may discuss unto the duke, look you) is digt himself four yards under the countermines; by Cheshu, I think 'a will plow up al, it there is not petier directions. Gower. The duke of Gloster, to whom the order 20 of the siege is given, is altogether directed by an Irishman; a very valiant gentleman, i' faith. Flu. It is captain Macmorris, is it not? Flu. By Cheshu, he is an ass, as in the 'orld: 125 will verify as much in his peard: he has no more directions in the true disciplines of the wars, look you, of the Roman disciplines, than is a puppydog. Enter Mucmorris, and Captain Jamy. Gower. Here 'a comes; and the Scots captain, captain Jamy, with him. Ane: the day is hot, and the weather, and the wars, and the king, and the dukes; it is no time to discourse. The town is beseech'd, and the trumpet calls us to the breach; and we talk, and by Chrish, do nothing; 'tis shame for us all: so God sa' me, 'tis shame to stand still; it is shame, by my hand and there is throats to be cut, and works to be done; and there ish nothing done, so Chrish sa' me, la. Jumy. By the mess, ere theise eyes of mine take themselves to slumber, aile do good service, or aile ligge i the grund for it; or go to death; and aile pay it as valorously as I may, that sal I surely do, that is the breff and the long: Marry, I wad full fain heard some question 'tween you tway. Flu. Captain Macmorris, I think, look you, under your correction, there is not many of your nation Mac. Of my nation? What ish my nation? ish a villain, and a bastard, and a knave, and a rascal? What ish my nation? Who talks of my nation? Flu. Look you, if you take the matter otherwise than is meant, captain Macmorris, peradventure, I shall think you do not use me with that atlability as in discrétion you ought to use me, look you; being as goot a man as yourself, both in the disciplines of wars, and in the derivation of my birth, and in other particularities. Muc. I do not know you so good a man as my30 self: so Chrish save me, I will cut off your head. Gower. Gentlemen, both, you will mistake each other. Flu. Captain Jamy is a marvellous falorous gentleman, that is certain; and of great expedition, and knowledge, in the aucient wars, upon my par-35 ticular knowledge of his directions: by Cheshu, he will maintain his argument as well as any military man in the 'orld, in the disciplines of the pristine wars of the Romans. 1401 Jamy. I say, gude-day, captain Fluellen. Jamy. It sall be very gud, gud feith, gud cap- ! That is, he will blow up all. Jamy. Au! that's a foul fault. [A parley sounded. Flu. Captain Macmorris, when there is more town? This is the latest parle we will admit : I will not leave the half-atchiev'd Harfleur, Array'd in flames, like to the prince of fiends,— What is't to me, when you yourselves are cause, That is, I shall requite you, answer you. If If your pure maidens fall into the hand Of hot and forcing violation? What rein can hold licentious wickedness, Kath. De elbow. Je m' en fuitz la repetition de tous le mots, que vous m'avez appris des à present. Alice. Il est trop difficile, madame, comme je pense. Kath. Excusez moy, Alice; escoutez: De hand, 10 de fingre, de nails, de arm, de bilbow. Alice. De elbow, madame. 15 To come ashore. Therefore, you men of Harfleur, Enter Governor, upon the Walls. Go K.Henry.Open your gates.--Come, uncle Exeter, SCENE The French Camp. Enter Katharine and an old Gentlewoman. Kath. Alice, tu as esté en Angleterre, & tu parles bien le language. Alice. Un peu, madame. 25 30 Kath. O Seigneur Dieu! je m'en oublie; De elbow. Comment appellez vous le col? Alice. De neck, madame. Kath. De neck: Et le menton? Alice. De chin. Kath. De sin. Le col, de neck: le menton, de sin. Alice. Ouy. Sauf vostre honneur; en verité, cous prononçez le mots aussi droict que les naitijs d' Angleterre. Kath. Je ne doute point d'apprendre par la grace de Dieu; & en peu de temps. Alice. N'avez vous pas deja oublié ce que je vous ay enseignée ? Kath. Non, je reciteray à vous promptement. De hand, de fingre, de mails. Alice. De nails, madame. Kath. De nails, de arm, de ilbow. Alice. Sauf vostre honneur, de elbow. Kath. Ainsi disje; de elbow, de neck, et de sin; Comment appellez vous les pieds & la robe ? Alice. De foot, madame; & de con. Kath. De foot, & de con? O Seigneur Dieu! ces sont mots de son mauvais, corruptible, grosse, 35 et impudique, & non pour les dames d'honneur d'user: Je ne voudrois prononcer ces mots devant les seigneurs de France, pour tout le monde. Il faut de foot, & de con, ncant-moins. Jereciterai une autre fois ma lecon ensemble: De hand, de 40 fingre, de nails, de arm, de elbow, ne neck, de sin, de foot, de con. 45 Kath. Je te prie, m'enseignez; il faut que j'apprenne à parler. Comment appellez vous la 50 main, en Anglois? Alice. La main? elle est appellée, de hand. Alice. Les doigis? ma joye, je oublie les doigts; mais je me souviendray. Les doigts? 55 je pense, qu'ils sont appellé de ingres; ouy, de fingers; oui de fingers. Kath. La main, de hand; les doigts, de fingres. Je pense, que je suis le bon escolier. J'ay gagnée deux mots d'Anglois vistement. Comment appel-60 lez vous les ongles? Alice, Des ongles? les appellons, de nails. Kath. De nails. Escoutez: dites moy, si je parle bien: de hand, de fingres, de nails. Alice. Excellent, madame! Kath. C'est assez pour une fois; allons nous à disner. [Exeunt. SCENE V. Presence-Chamber in the French Court. Con. And if he be not fought withal, iny lord, us, The emptying of our father's luxury',— [bastards! Bour. Normans, but bastard Normans, Norman To overblow is to drive away, or to keep off. i. e. prepared. In this place, as in others, luxury 1 means lust. *1. e. uncultivated, or wild. In |