401 correctioner! if you be not swinged, I'll for-1 King. I know thee not, old man: Fall to thy

swear half-kirtles.

[come.

prayers;

1 Bead. Come, come, you she knight-errant, How ill white hairs become a fool, and jester! Host. O, that right should thus overcome I have long dream'd of such a kind of man, Well; of sufferance comes ease. [might! So surfeit-swell'd, so old, and so profane; Dol. Come, you rogue, come; bring me to a But, being awake, I do despise my dream. justice.

Host. Ay; come, you starved blood-hound.
Dol. Goodman death! goodman bones!
Host. Thou atomy thou!

Dol. Come, you thin thing; come, you rascal!
1 Bead. Very well.
[Exeunt.

SCENE V.

A public Place near Westminster Abbey.
Enter Two Grooms, strewing Kushes.

1 Groom. More rushes, more rushes.
2 Groom. The trumpets have sounded twice.
1 Groom. It will be two o'clock ere they come
from the coronation: Despatch, despatch.
[Exeunt Grooms.
Enter FALSTAFF, SHALLOW, PISTOL, BARDOLPH,
and the Page.

Fal. Stand here by me, master Robert Shallow; I will make the king do you grace: I will leer upon him, as 'a comes by; and do but mark the countenance that he will give me.

Pist. God bless thy lungs, good knight. Fal. Come here, Pistol; stand behind me.O, if I had had time to have made new liveries, I would have bestowed the thousand pound I borrowed of you. [To SHALLOW.] But 'tis no matter; this poor show doth better: this doth infer the zeal I had to see him.

Shal. It doth so.

Fal. It shows my earnestness of affection.
Shal. It doth so.

Fal. My devotion.

Shal. It doth, it doth, it doth.

Fal. As it were, to ride day and night; and not to deliberate, not to remember, not to have patience to shift me.

Shal. It is most certain.

Fal. But to stand stained with travel, and sweating with desire to see him; thinking of nothing else; putting all affairs else in oblivion; as if there were nothing else to be done, but to see him.

Make less thy body hence, and more thy grace:
Leave gormandizing; know, the grave doth gape
For thee thrice wider than for other men:-
Reply not to me with a fool-born jest;
Presume not, that I am the thing I was:
For heaven doth know, so shall the world per.
ceive,

That I have turned away my former self;
So will I those that keep me company.
When thou dost hear I am as I have been,
The tutor and the feeder of my riots;
Approach me; and thou shalt be as thou wast,
Till then, I banish thee, on pain of death,--
As I have done the rest of my misleaders,---
Nor to come near our person by ten mile,
For competence of life, I will allow you,
And, as we hear you do reform yourselves,
That lack of means enforce you not to evil :
We will,-according to your strength, and qua-
lities,-
[lord,

Give you advancement.- Be it your charge, my
Set on.
To see perform'd the tenor of our word.
[Exeunt King and his Train.
Fal. Master Shallow, I owe you a thousand
pound.

Shal. Ay, marry, Sir John; which I beseech you to let me have home with me.

Fal. That can hardly be, master Shallow. Do not you grieve at this; I shall be sent for in private to him: look you, he must seem thus to the world. Fear not your advancement; I will be the man yet, that shall make you great.

me your doublet, and stuff me out with straw.
Shal. I cannot perceive how; unless you give
I beseech you, good Sir John, let me have five
hundred of my thousand.

that you heard, was but a colour.
Fal. Sir, I will be as good as my word: this

Sir John.
Shal. A colour, I fear, that you will die in,

Fal. Fear no colours; go with me to dinner.
Come, lieutenant Pistol;-come, Bardolph :-I

Pist. 'Tis semper idem, for absque hoc nihil est: shall be sent for soon at night. 'Tis all in every part.

Shal. "Tis so, indeed.

Pist. My knight, I will inflame thy noble liver,
And make thee rage.

Thy Doll, and Helen of thy noble thoughts,
Is in base durance, and contagious prison;
Haul'd thither

By most mechanical and dirty hand :-
Rouse up revenge from ebon den with fell

Alecto's snake,

For Doll is in; Pistol speaks nought but truth.
Fal. I will deliver her.

[Shouts within, and the Trumpets sound. Pist. There roar'd the sea, and trumpet-clangor

sounds.

Enter the King and his Train, the Chief Justice among them.

Fol. God save thy grace, King Hal! my royal
Hal!
[royal imp of fame!
Pist. The heavens thee guard and keep, most
Fal. God save thee, my sweet boy!
King. My lord chief justice, speak to that
vain man.

Ch. Just. Have you your wits? know you
what 'tis you speak?
[heart!
Fal. My king, my Jove! I speak to thee, my

Re-enter PRINCE JOHN, the Chief Justice, Offi-
cers, &c.

Ch. Just. Go, carry Sir John Falstaff to the
Fleet;

Take all his company along with him.
Fal. My lord, my lord,-

Ch. Just. I cannot now speak: I will hear
Take them away.
[you soon.
Pist. Si fortuna me tormenta, spero me contenta.
[Exeunt FAL. SHAL. PIST. BARD. Page,
and Officers.

P. John. I like this fair proceeding of the
He hath intent, his wonted followers
king's:
Shall all be very well provided for;
But all are banish'd, till their conversations
Appear more wise and modest to the world,
Ch. Just. And so they are.
[my lord.

P. John. The king hath call'd his parliament,
Ch. Just. He hath.
[expire,

P. John. I will lay odds,-that ere this year
We bear our civil swords, and native fire,
Whose musick, to my thinking, pleas'd the king.
As far as France: I heard a bird so sing,
Come, will you hence?
[Exeunt.

DD

EPILOGUE.

If my tongue cannot entreat you to acquit me, will you command me to use my legs? and yet Spoken by a Dancer. that were but light payment,-to dance out of FIRST, my fear; then, my court'sy; last, my your debt. But a good conscience will make speech. My fear is, your displeasure; my any possible satisfaction, and so will I. All the court'sy, my duty; and my speech to beg your gentlewomen here have forgiven me; if the pardons. If you look for a good speech now, gentlemen will not, then the gentlemen do not you undo me for what I have to say, is of agree with the gentlewoman, which was never mine own making; and what, indeed, I should seen before in such an assembly. say, will, I doubt, prove mine own marring. One word more, I beseech you. If you be But to the purpose, and so to the venture.-Be not too much cloyed with fat meat, our humble it known to you (as it is very well), I was lately author will continue the story, with Sir John in here in the end of a displeasing play, to pray it, and make you merry with fair Katharine of your patience for it, and to promise you a better. France: where, for any thing I know, Falstaff I did mean, indeed, to pay you with this: which. shall die of a sweat, unless already he be killed if, like an ill venture, it come unluckily home, with your hard opinions; for Oldcastle died a I break, and you, my gentle creditors, lose. martyr, and this is not the man. My tongue is Here, I promised you, I would be, and here I weary; when my legs are too, I will bid you commit my body to your mercies: bate me some, good night: and so kneel down before you ;-and I will pay you some, and, as most debtors but, indeed, to pray for the queen. do, promise you infinitely.

King Benry the Fifth.

DUKE OF BEDFORD,

DUKE OF EXETER, Uncle to the King.
DUKE OF YORK, Cousin to the King.

Boy, Servant to them. A Herald. Chorus.
CHARLES THE SIXTH, King of France,

LEWIS, the Dauphin.

DUKES OF BURGUNDY, ORLEANS, and BOURBON
The Constable of France.

EARLS OF SALISBURY, WESTMORELAND, and RAMBURES and GRANDPREE, French Lords.

WARWICK.

ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY.

BISHOP OF ELY.

EABL OF CAMBRIDGE,

LORD SCROOP,

SIR THOMAS GREY,

Conspirators against
King.

Governor of Harfleur.

MONTJOY, a French Herald. Ambassadors to the King of England. the ISABEL, Queen of France.

SIR THOMAS ERPINGHAM, GOWER, FLUELLEN,
MACMORRIS, JAMY, Officers in K. Henry's Army.
BATES, COURT, WILLIAM, Soldiers in the same.
NYM, BARDOLPH, PISTOL, formerly Servants to
Falstaff, now Soldiers in the same.

KATHARINE, Daughter of Charles and Isabel.
ALICE,a Lady attending on the Princess Katharine.
QUICKLY, Pistol's Wife, an Hostess.

Lords, Ladies, Officers, French and English Sol-
diers, Messengers, and Attendants.

The SCENE, at the beginning of the Play, lies in England; but afterwards wholly in France.

Enter CHORus.

O, FOR a muse of fire, that would ascend
The brightest heaven of invention !
A kingdom for a stage, princes to act,
And monarchs to behold the swelling scene!
Then should the warlike Harry, like himself,
Assume the port of Mars: And, at his heels,
Leash'd in like hounds, should famine, sword,
and fire,

Crouch for employment. But pardon, gentles all,
The flat untaised spirit, that hath dar'd,
On this unworthy scaffold, to bring forth
So great an object: Can this cockpit hold
The vasty fields of France? or may we cram
Within this wooden O, the very casques,
That did affright the air at Agincourt?
O, pardon! since a crooked figure may
Attest, in little place, a million;

And let us, ciphers to this great accompt,
On your imaginary forces work:
Suppose, within the girdle of these walls
Are now confin'd two mighty monarchies,
Whose high upreared and abutting fronts
The perilous, narrow ocean parts asunder.
Pierce out our imperfections with your thoughts
Into a thousand parts divide one man,

Ely. But how, my lord, shall we resist it now? For I have made an offer to his majesty,Cant. It must be thought on. If it pass against Upon our spiritual convocation: We lose the better half of our possession: [us, And in regard of causes now in hand, For all the temporal lands, which men devout Which I have open'd to his grace at large, By testament have given to the church, As touching France,-to give a greater sum Would they strip from us: being valued thus,-Than ever at one time the clergy yet As much as would maintain, to the king's ho- Did to his predecessors part withal.

As is the ooze and bottom of the sea With sunken wreck and sumless treasuries. West. But there's a saying, very old and true,If that you will France win, Then with Scotland first begin: For once the eagle England being in prey, To her unguarded nest the weasel Scot Comes sneaking, and so sucks her princely eggs; [spirit, Playing the mouse, in absence of the cat, From whom you claim: invoke his warlike To spoil and havock more than she can eat.

K. Hen. We are no tyrant, but a Christian

king;

Exe. It follows then, the cat must stay at home: The Dauphin's meaning, and our embassy? 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, though high, and low, and lower,

Put into parts, doth keep in one concent;
Congruing in a full and natural close,
Like music.

Cant. True; 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
To the tent-royal of their emperor: [home
Who, busied in his majesty, surveys
The singing masons building roofs of gold;
The civil citizens kneading up the honey;
The poor mechanick porters crowding in
Their heavy burdens at his narrow gate:
The sad-ey'd 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,
Fly to one mark;

As many several ways meet in one town;
As many fresh streams run in one self sea;
As many lines close in the dial's centre;
So may a thousand actions, once afoot,
End in one purpose, and be all well borne
Without defeat. Therefore to France, my liege.
Divide your happy England into four;
Whereof take you one quarter into France,
And you withal shall make all Gallia shake.
If we, with thrice that power left at home,
Cannot defend our own door from the dog,
Let us be worried; and our nation lose
The name of hardiness, and policy.

K. Hen. Call in the messengers sent from the
Dauphin.

[Exit an Attendant. The King ascends

his Throne.

Now are we well resolv'd: and by God's help,
And yours, the noble sinews of our power,-
France being ours, we'll bend it to our awe,
Or break it all to pieces: Or there we'll sit,
Ruling, in large and ample empery,
O'er France, and all her almost kingly duke-
Or lay these bones in an unworthy urn, [doms:
Tombless, with no remembrance over them:
Either our history shall, with full mouth,
Speak freely of our acts; or else our grave,
Like Turkish mute, shall have a tongueless
Not worship'd with a waxen epitaph. [mouth,

Enter Ambassadors of France.

Now are we well prepar'd to know the pleasure
Of our fair cousin Dauphin; for, we hear,
Your greeting is from him, not from the king.
Amb. May it please your majesty, to give us
leave

Freely to render what we have in charge;
Or shall we sparingly show you far off

ness,

Unto whose grace our passion is as subject,
As are our wretches fetter'd in our prisons:
Therefore, with frank and with uncurbed plain-
Tell us the Dauphin's mind.
Amb.
Thus then, in few.
Your highness, lately sending into France,
Did claim some certain dukedoms, in the right
Of your great predecessor, King Edward the
Third.

In answer of which claim, the prince our master
Says, that you savour too much of you youth;
And bids you be advis'd, there's nought in
France,

That can be with a nimble galliard won;
You cannot revel into dukedoms there:
He therefore sends you, meeter for your spirit,
This tun of treasure; and, in lieu of this,
Desires yon, let the dukedoms, that you claim,
Hear no more of you. This the Dauphin speaks.
K. Hen. What treasure, uncle?

Exe.
Tennis-balls, my liege.
K. Hen. We are glad the Dauphin is so plea-
sant with us;

His present, and your pains, we thank you for:
Whenwe have match'd our rackets to these balls,
We will, in France, by God's grace, play a set,
Shall strike his father's crown into the hazard:
Tell him, he hath made a match with such a
wrangler,

That all the courts of France will be disturb'd
With chaces. And we understand him well,
How he comes o'er us with our wilder days,
Not measuring what use we made of them.
We never valu'd this poor seat of England:
And therefore, living hence, did give ourself
To barbarous license; As 'tis ever common,
That men are merriest when they are from home.
But tell the Dauphin,-I will keep my state.
Be like a king, and show my sail of greatness,
When I do rouse me in my throne of France:
For that I have laid by my majesty,
And plodded like a man for working-days;
But I will rise there with so full a glory,
That I will dazzle all the eyes of France,
Yea, strike the Dauphin blind to look on us
And tell the pleasant prince,-this mock of his
Hath turn'd his balls to gun-stones; and his soul
Shall stand sore charged for the wasteful ven-
geance
[widows

That shall fly with them: for many a thousand
Shall this his mock mock out of their dear hus-
bands;
[down;
Mock mothers from their sons, mock castles
And some are yet ungotten, and unborn,
That shall have cause to curse the Dauphin's
But this lies all within the will of God, [scorn.
To whom I do appeal: And in whose name,
Tell you the Dauphin, I am coming on,
To venge me as I may, and to put forth
My rightful hand in a well hallow'd cause.
So, get you hence in peace; and tell the Dauphin,
His jest will savour but of shallow wit, [it.
When thousands weep, more than did laugh at
Convey them with safe conduct.-Fare you well.
[Exeunt Ambassadors.

Exe. This was a merry message.
K. Hen. We hope to make the sender blush
at it.
[Descends from his Throne.
Therefore, my lords, omit no happy hour,
That may give furtherance to our expedition:
For we have now no thought in us but France;
Save those to God, that run before our business.