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KING HENRY THE FIFTH.

DUKE of GLOSTER,

DUKE of BEDFORD,

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Brothers to the King.

DUKE of YORK,

DUKE of EXETER,Uncles to the King,

EARL of SALISBURY.

EARL of WESTMORELAND.

EARL of WARWICK.

ARCHBISHOP of CANTERBURY, Henry Chichelcy.

BISHOP of ELY, John Fordham.

EARL of CAMBRIDGE,

LORD SCROOP,

SIR THOMAS GREY,

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Conspirators against the King.

SIR THOMAS ERPINGHAM, GOWER, FLUELLEN, MACKMORRIS, JAMY, Officers in King Henry's army. NYM, BARDOLPH, PISTOL, BOY, formerly Servants to Falftaff, now Soldiers in the King's Army.

BATES, COURT, WILLIAMS, Soldiers.

CHARLES, the Sixth, King of France.

The DAUPHIN.

DUKE of BURGUNDY.

CONSTABLE, ORLEANS, RAMBURES, BOURBON,

GRANDPREE, French Lords.

GOVERNOR of HARFLEUR.

MONTJOY, a Herald.

Ambaffadors to the King of England.

ISABEL, Queen of France.

KATHARINE, Daughter to the King of France.

ALICE, a Lady attending on the Princefs Katharine.
QUICKLY, Piftol's Wife, an Hoftefs.

Chorus.

Lords, Meffengers, French and English Soldiers, with other

Attendants.

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

This Play was written in the year 1599, upon the Plan of exhibiting a continuance of our Annals in a series of theatrical compofitions: it contains the principal tranfactions of the first eight years of this king's reign, concluding with his marriage of Katharine Princefs of France, and thereby cementing the differences between the two Grown

CHOR U S.

O, for a mufe of fire, that would afcend The brightest heaven of invention!

A kingdom for a ftage, princes to act,

And monarchs to behold the fwelling scene!
Then should the warlike Harry, like himself,
Affume the port of Mars; and, at his heels,
Leafh'd in like hounds, fhould famine, fword, and fire,
Crouch for employment. But pardon, gentles all,
The flat unraised fpirit, that hath dar'd,

On this unworthy fcaffold, to bring forth
So great an object: Can this cock-pit hold
The vasty field of France? or may we cram,
Within this wooden O, the very *cafques

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That did affright the air at Agincourt?
O, pardon! fince a 'crooked figure may
Atteft, in little place, a million;

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

bounds," the dogs of war." JULIUS CAESAR, Act III. S.1. Ant. this wooden O,]-this circular theatre-the Globe, where most of Shakespeare's plays were performed.

the very cafques]-even the helmets, the helmets alone.

crooked figure may atteft,]-the numeral character j may exprefs. imaginary forces]-powers of imagination.

Into a thousand parts divide one man, And make imaginary puissance:]— Suppofe each man to reprefent a thoufand, thus let your fancy multiply our forces.

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And

And make imaginary puiffance:

Think, when we talk of horfes, that you fee them
Printing their proud hoofs i' the receiving earth;
For 'tis your thoughts that now muft 'deck our kings,
Carry them here and there; jumping o'er times;
Turning the accomplishment of many years
Into an hour-glass; "For the which supply,
Admit me chorus to this hiftory;

Who, prologue-like, your humble patience pray,
Gently to hear, kindly to judge, our play.

f deck our kings,]-furnish them with all the enfigns and appendages of royal magnificence.

& Turning, &c.]-reprefenting, within the space of a few hours, the tranfactions of many years.

For the which jupply, &c.]-Permit me, after apologizing for these defects, humbly to befpeak your patient hearing, and candid judgment of this performance.

LIF

LIFE OF

KING HENRY V.

ACT I. SCENE L

An antichamber in the English court, at Kenelworth.
Enter the archbishop of Canterbury, and bishop of Ely.
Cant. My lord, I'll tell you,-that 'felf bill is urg'd,
Which, in the eleventh year o' the last king's reign
Was like, and had indeed against us past,

But that the scambling and unquiet time
Did push it out of further question.

Ely. But how, my lord, fhall we resist it now?
Cant. It must be thought on. If it pass against us,
We lose the better half of our poffeffion :
For all the temporal lands, which men devout
By teftament have given to the church,

Would they strip from us; being valu'd thus,-
As much as would maintain, to the king's honour,
Full fifteen earls, and fifteen hundred knights;
Six thousand and two hundred good efquires;
And, to relief of lazars, and weak age,
Of indigent faint fouls, paft corporal toil,

Self-felfsame.
Scambling]-turbulent, fcrambling-
"Scambling, out-facing, fashion-mong'ring boys."
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, Vol. I. p. 511. Ant.
A hun-

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