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THE YALE SHAKESPEARE 
 
 Edited by 
 Wilbur L. Cross Tucker Brooke 
 
 WlLLARD HlGLEY DURHAM 
 
 Published under the Direction 
 
 or the 
 
 Department of English, Yale University, 
 
 on the Fund 
 
 Given to the Yale University Press in 1917 
 
 by the Members of the 
 
 Kingsley Trust Association 
 
 To Commemorate the Seventy-Fifth Anniversary 
 
 of the Founding of the Society 
 
The Yale Shakespeare '. 
 
 THE LIFE OF 
 HENRY THE FIFTH 
 
 EDITED BY 
 
 ROBERT D. FRENCH 
 
 pssSStf** 
 
 NEW HAVEN • YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS 
 
 LONDON • HUMPHREY MILFORD 
 OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS • MCMXVIII 
 

 Copyright, 1918 
 By Yale University Press 
 
 First published, September, 1918 
 
 DEC il 1918 
 
 ©CI.A506871 
 
TABLE OF CONTENTS 
 
 The Text 
 
 Notes ....... 
 
 Appendix A. Sources of the Play 
 
 Appendix B. The History of the Play 
 
 Appendix C. The Text of the Present Edi- 
 tion .... 
 
 Appendix D. Suggestions for Collateral 
 Reading 
 
 Index of Words Glossed .... 
 
 page 
 
 1 
 
 122 
 
 134 
 
 135 
 
 139 
 
 141 
 142 
 
The facsimile opposite represents the title-yage of the Eliza- 
 bethan Club copy of the first edition of 'Henry V.' Five other 
 copies are known. It is remarkable that none of the three 
 quarto editions of this play bear the author's name. 
 
THE 
 
 CRONICLE 
 
 Hiftory of Henry the fift, 
 
 With liis batteil fought at Agm Qourt in 
 
 France. Togither with Atmtient 
 
 Pittoll. 
 
 ds it hath benefundry times playdby thcRight honorabk 
 she Lord Chamber laine htsfcruants. 
 
 LONDON 
 
 Printed by Thomas Cra^forTho. Milling- 
 
 ton,and Iohn Busby. And are to be 
 
 (old at his houfe in Carter Lane, next 
 
 the Powle head. 1600. 
 
[DRAMATIS PERSONS 
 
 King Henry the Fifth 
 
 Duke of Gloucester, 1 
 
 Duke of Bedford, [Brothers to the King 
 
 Duke of Clarence, J 
 
 Duke of Exeter, Uncle to the King 
 
 Duke of York, Cousin to the King 
 
 Earls of Salisbury, Westmoreland, and Warwick 
 
 Archbishop of Canterbury 
 
 Bishop of Ely 
 
 Earl of Cambridge 
 
 Lord Scroop of Masham 
 
 Sir Thomas Grey 
 
 Sir Thomas Erpingham, Gower, Fluellen, Macmorris, 
 
 J amy, Officers in King Henry's Army 
 Bates, Court, Williams, Soldiers in the Same 
 Pistol, Nym, Bardolph 
 Boy 
 A Herald 
 
 Charles the Sixth, King of France 
 
 Lewis, the Dauphin 
 
 Dukes of Burgundy, Orleans, and Bourbon 
 
 The Constable of France 
 
 Rambures and Grandpre, French Lords 
 
 Montjoy, a French Herald 
 
 Governor of Harfleur 
 
 Ambassadors to the King of England 
 
 Isabel, Queen of France 
 
 Katharine, Daughter to Charles and Isabel 
 
 Alice, a Lady attending on the Princess Katharine 
 
 Hostess of the Boar's Head Tavern, formerly Mistress 
 Quickly, and now married to Pistol 
 
 Lords, Ladies, Officers, French and English Soldiers, Citi- 
 zens, Messengers, and Attendants 
 
 Chorus 
 
 Scene: England to the close of Act II. Sc. Hi; 
 
 afterwards France] 
 
The Life of Henry the Fifth 
 
 Enter Prologue. 
 
 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. 4 
 
 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 unraised spirits that hath dar'd 9 
 
 On this unworthy scaffold to bring forth 
 
 So great an object: can this cockpit hold 
 
 The vasty fields of France? or may we cram 12 
 
 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; 16 
 
 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, 20 
 
 Whose 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, 24 
 
 And make imaginary puissance; 
 
 Think when we talk of horses that you see them 
 
 6 port: bearing 9 unraised: unaspiring 10 scaffold: stage 
 
 11 cockpit; cf. n. 12 vasty: vast 
 
 13 the very casques: even the helmets 16 Attest: stand for; cf. n. 
 
 17 accompt: account 18 imaginary: imaginative 
 
 21 abutting: adjacent 
 
2 N The Life of 
 
 Printing their proud hoofs i' the receiving earth ; 
 For 'tis your thoughts that now must deck our 
 kings, 28 
 
 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 history ; 32 
 
 Who prologue-like your humble patience pray, 
 Gently to hear, kindly to judge, our play. Exit. 
 
 ACT FIRST 
 
 Scene One 
 
 [London. An Antechamber in the King's Palace"] 
 
 Enter the two Bishops of Canterbury and Ely. 
 
 Cant. My lord, I'll tell you; that self bill is urg'd, 
 Which in th' eleventh year of the last king's reign 
 Was like, and had indeed against us pass'd, 
 But that the scambling and unquiet time 4 
 
 Did push it out of further question. 
 
 Ely. But how, my lord, shall we resist it now? 
 
 Cant. It must be thought on. If it pass against us, 
 We lose the better half of our possession; 8 
 
 For all the temporal lands which men devout 
 By testament have given to the church 
 Would they strip from us ; being valu'd thus : 
 As much as would maintain, to the king's honour, 12 
 Full fifteen earls and fifteen hundred knights, 
 Six thousand and two hundred good esquires ; 
 
 29 jumping o'er times; cf. n. 
 
 31 for . . . supply: for which service 32 Chorus; cf. n. 
 
 Scene One S. d. Bishops; cf. n. 1 self: same 3 like: likely {to pass) 
 
 4 scambling: turbulent 5 question: consideration 
 
Henry the Fifth, I. i 3 
 
 And, to relief of lazars and weak age, 
 
 Of indigent faint souls past corporal toil, 16 
 
 A hundred almshouses right well supplied; 
 
 And to the coffers of the king beside, 
 
 A thousand pounds by the year. Thus runs the bill. 
 
 Ely. This would drink deep. 
 
 Cant. 'T would drink the cup and all. 
 
 Ely. But what prevention ? 21 
 
 Cant. The king is full of grace and fair regard. 
 
 Ely. And a true lover of the holy church. 
 
 Cant. The courses of his youth promis'd it not. 24 
 The breath no sooner left his father's body 
 But that his wildness, mortified in him, 
 Seem'd to die too ; yea, at that very moment, 
 Consideration like an angel came, 28 
 
 And whipp'd the offending Adam out of him, 
 Leaving his body as a paradise, 
 To envelop and contain celestial spirits. 
 Never was such a sudden scholar made; 32 
 
 Never came reformation in a flood, 
 With such a heady currance, scouring faults ; 
 Nor never Hydra-headed wilfulness 
 So soon did lose his seat and all at once 36 
 
 As in this king. 
 
 Ely. We are blessed in the change. 
 
 Cant. Hear him but reason in divinity, 
 And, all-admiring, with an inward wish 
 You would desire the king were made a prelate: 40 
 Hear him debate of commonwealth affairs, 
 You would say it hath been all in all his study: 
 List his discourse of war, and you shall hear 
 
 15 lazars: beggars (especially lepers) 26 mortified: subdued 
 
 28 Consideration: reflection 34 heady currance: headlong current 
 
 35 Hydra-headed: many-headed; cf. n. 36 his: its 
 
 43 List: listen to 
 
* The Life of 
 
 A fearful battle render'd you in music: 44 
 
 Turn him to any cause of policy, 
 
 The Gordian knot of it he will unloose, 
 
 Familiar as his garter; that, when he speaks, 
 
 The air, a charter'd libertine, is still, 48 
 
 And the mute wonder lurketh in men's ears, 
 
 To steal his sweet and honey'd sentences ; 
 
 50 that the art and practic part of life 
 
 Must be the mistress to this theoric: 52 
 
 Which is a wonder how his Grace should glean it, 
 
 Since his addiction was to courses vain ; 
 
 His companies unletter'd, rude, and shallow; 
 
 His hours fill'd up with riots, banquets, sports ; 56 
 
 And never noted in him any study, 
 
 Any retirement, any sequestration 
 
 From open haunts and popularity. 
 
 Ely. The strawberry grows underneath the nettle, 
 And wholesome berries thrive and ripen best 61 
 
 Neighbour'd by fruit of baser quality : 
 And so the prince obscur'd his contemplation 
 Under the veil of wildness; which, no doubt, 64 
 
 Grew like the summer grass, fastest by night, 
 Unseen, yet crescive in his faculty. 
 
 Cant. It must be so; for miracles are ceas'd; 
 And therefore we must needs admit the means 
 How things are perfected. 
 
 Ely. But, my good lord, 69 
 
 How now for mitigation of this bill 
 Urg'd by the commons? Doth his majesty 
 Incline to it, or no? 
 
 45 cause of policy: political question 46 Gordian knot; cf. n. 
 
 47 that: so t hat 48 charter'd: privileged 
 
 51 art; cf. n. practic: practical 52 theoric: theory 
 55 companies: companions 57 never noted: there was never noted 
 58 sequestration : withdrazval 59 popularity : low company 
 63 contemplation: thoughtful nature 
 
 66 crescive in his faculty: increasing by its ozvn power 
 
Henry the Fifth, I. i 
 
 Cant. He seems indifferent, 72 
 
 Or rather swaying more upon our part 
 Than cherishing the exhibiters against us ; 
 For I have made an offer to his majesty, 
 Upon our spiritual convocation, 76 
 
 And in regard of causes now in hand, 
 Which I have open'd to his Grace at large, 
 As touching France, to give a greater sum 
 Than ever at one time the clergy yet 80 
 
 Did to his predecessors part withal. 
 
 Ely. How did this offer seem receiv'd, my lord? 
 
 Cant. With good acceptance of his majesty; 
 Save that there was not time enough to hear, — 84 
 As I perceiv'd his Grace would fain have done, — 
 The severals and unhidden passages 
 Of his true titles to some certain dukedoms, 
 And generally to the crown and seat of France, 
 Deriv'd from Edward, his great-grandfather. 89 
 
 Ely. What was the impediment that broke this off? 
 
 Cant. The French ambassador upon that instant 
 Crav'd audience; and the hour I think is come 
 To give him hearing: is it four o'clock? 93 
 
 Ely. It is. 
 
 Cant. Then go we in to know his embassy ; 
 Which I could with a ready guess declare 96 
 
 Before the Frenchman speak a word of it. 
 
 Ely. I'll wait upon you, and I long to hear it. 
 
 Exeunt. 
 
 73 upon our part: to our side 
 
 74 exhibiters: i.e., those who presented the bill in Parliament 
 
 76 Upon: upon the authority of 81 withal: with 
 
 86 severals: details passages: lines of succession 
 
 39 Edward; cf. n. 95 embassy: message 
 
6 The Life of 
 
 Scene Two 
 [The Presence Chamber] 
 
 Enter the King, Humphrey [Duke of Gloucester"], 
 Bedford, Clarence, Warwick, Westmoreland, and 
 Exeter [with Attendants]. 
 
 K. Hen. Where is my gracious lord of Canterbury ? 
 
 Exe. Not here in presence. 
 
 K. Hen. Send for him, good uncle. 
 
 West. Shall we call in the ambassador, my liege ? 
 
 K. Hen. Not yet, my cousin: we would be re- 
 solv'd, 4 
 
 Before we hear him, of some things of weight 
 That task our thoughts, concerning us and France. 
 
 Enter [the] two Bishops. 
 
 Cant. God and his angels guard your sacred throne, 
 And make you long become it ! 
 
 K. Hen. Sure, we thank you. 
 
 My learned lord, we pray you to proceed, 9 
 
 And justly and religiously unfold 
 Why the law Salique that they have in France 
 Or should, or should not, bar us in our claim. 12 
 
 And God forbid, my dear and faithful lord, 
 That you should fashion, wrest, or bow your reading, 
 Or nicely charge your understanding soul 
 With opening titles miscreate, whose right 16 
 
 Suits not in native colours with the truth; 
 For God doth know how many now in health 
 Shall drop their blood in approbation 
 
 4 cousin: title of courtesy used by the sovereign in addressing a 
 nobleman 4,5 resolv'd . . . of : satisfied about 6 task: trouble 
 8 become: grace 11 law Salique: Salic law; cf. n. 12 Or: either 
 
 14 wrest: pervert 15 nicely: sophistically charge: burden 
 
 16 opening: disclosing miscreate: dishonestly invented 
 19 approbation : proof 
 
Henry the Fifth, I, ii 
 
 Of what your reverence shall incite us to. 20 
 
 Therefore take heed how you impawn our person, 
 How you awake our sleeping sword of war: 
 We charge you in the name of God, take heed; 
 For never two such kingdoms did contend 24 
 
 Without much fall of blood; whose guiltless drops 
 Are every one a woe, a sore complaint, 
 'Gainst him whose wrongs give edge unto the swords 
 That make such waste in brief mortality. 28 
 
 Under this conjuration speak, my lord, 
 For we will hear, note, and believe in heart, 
 That what you speak is in your conscience wash'd 
 As pure as sin with baptism. 32 
 
 Cant. Then hear me, gracious sovereign, and you 
 peers, 
 That owe yourselves, your lives, and services 
 To this imperial throne. There is no bar 
 To make against your highness' claim to France 36 
 But this, which they produce from Pharamond, 
 In terram Salicam mulieres ne succedant, 
 'No woman shall succeed in Salique land': 
 Which Salique land the French unjustly gloze 40 
 
 To be the realm of France, and Pharamond - 
 The founder of this law and female bar. 
 Yet their own authors faithfully affirm 
 That the land Salique is in Germany, 44 
 
 Between the floods of Sala and of Elbe; 
 Where Charles the Great, having subdu'd the Saxons, 
 There left behind and settled certain French ; 
 Who, holding in disdain the German women 48 
 
 For some dishonest manners of their life, 
 
 21 impawn : pledge 28 mortality: human life 
 
 37 Pharamond: legendary Frankish king 40 gloze: interpret 
 
 45 floods: rivers 46 Charles the Great: Charlemagne 
 
 49 dishonest: unchaste 
 
8 The Life of 
 
 Established then this law; to wit, no female 
 
 Should be inheritrix in Salique land: 
 
 Which Salique, as I said, 'twixt Elbe and Sala, 
 
 Is at this day in Germany call'd Meisen. 53 
 
 Then doth it well appear the Salique law 
 
 Was not devised for the realm of France; 
 
 Nor did the French possess the Salique land 56 
 
 Until four hundred one-and-twenty years 
 
 After defunction of King Pharamond, 
 
 Idly suppos'd the founder of this law; 
 
 Who died within the year of our redemption 60 
 
 Four hundred twenty-six; and Charles the Great 
 
 Subdu'd the Saxons, and did seat the French 
 
 Beyond the river Sala, in the year 
 
 Eight hundred five. Besides, their writers say, 
 
 King Pepin, which deposed Childeric, 65 
 
 Did, as heir general, being descended 
 
 Of Blithild, which was daughter to King Clothair, 
 
 Make claim and title to the crown of France. 68 
 
 Hugh Capet also, who usurp'd the crown 
 
 Of Charles the Duke of Lorraine, sole heir male 
 
 Of the true line and stock of Charles the Great, 
 
 To find his title with some shows of truth, — 72 
 
 Though in pure truth, it was corrupt and naught, — 
 
 Convey'd himself as th' heir to the Lady Lingare, 
 
 Daughter to Charlemain, who was the son 
 
 To Lewis the emperor, and Lewis the son 76 
 
 Of Charles the Great. Also King Lewis the Tenth, 
 
 Who was sole heir to the usurper Capet, 
 
 Could not keep quiet in his conscience, 
 
 Wearing the crown of France, till satisfied 80 
 
 57 Cf.n. 58 defunction: death 65 King Pepin; cf. n. 
 
 69 Hugh Capet; cf. n. 72 find: provide 
 
 74 Convey'd himself: passed himself off 
 
 75 Charlemain: i.e., Charles the Bald 77 Lewis the Tenth; cf. n. 
 
Henry the Fifth, I. ii 
 
 That fair Queen Isabel, his grandmother, 
 
 Was lineal of the Lady Ermengare, 
 
 Daughter to Charles the aforesaid Duke of Lorraine: 
 
 By the which marriage the line of Charles the 
 
 Great 84 
 
 Was re-united to the crown of France. 
 So that, as clear as is the summer's sun, 
 King Pepin's title, and Hugh Capet's claim, 
 King Lewis his satisfaction, all appear 88 
 
 To hold in right and title of the female : 
 So do the kings of France unto this day; 
 Howbeit they would hold up this Salique law 
 To bar your highness claiming from the female ; 
 And rather choose to hide them in a net 93 
 
 Than amply to imbar their crooked titles 
 Usurp'd from you and your progenitors. 
 
 K. Hen. May I with right and conscience make this 
 
 claim? 96 
 
 Cant . The sin upon my head, dread sovereign ! 
 For in the book of Numbers is it writ : 
 'When the man dies, let the inheritance 
 Descend unto the daughter.' Gracious lord, 100 
 
 Stand for your own ; unwind your bloody flag ; 
 Look back into your mighty ancestors: 
 Go, my dread lord, to your great-grandsire's tomb, 
 From whom you claim ; invoke his warlike spirit, 104 
 And your great-uncle's, Edward the Black Prince, 
 Who on the French ground play'd a tragedy, 
 Making defeat on the full power of France ; 
 Whiles his most mighty father on a hill 108 
 
 Stood smiling to behold his lion's whelp 
 Forage in blood of French nobility. 
 
 82 lineal: direct descendant 88 King Lewis his: King Lewis' 
 
 93 them: themselves 94 Cf. n. 
 
 98 Numbers; cf. Numb. 27. 8. 106-114 Cf. n. 
 
io The Life of 
 
 O noble English ! that could entertain 
 With half their forces the full pride of France, 
 And let another half stand laughing by, 113 
 
 All out of work, and cold for action. 
 
 Ely. Awake remembrance of these valiant dead, 
 And with your puissant arm renew their feats : 
 You are their heir, you sit upon their throne, 
 The blood and courage that renowned them 
 Runs in your veins ; and my thrice-puissant liege 
 Is in the very May-morn of his youth, 120 
 
 Ripe for exploits and mighty enterprises. 
 
 Exe. Your brother kings and monarchs of the earth 
 Do all expect that you should rouse yourself, 
 As did the former lions of your blood. 124 
 
 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 Eng- 
 land 128 
 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 132 
 
 Will raise your highness such a mighty sum 
 As never did the clergy at one time 
 Bring in to any of your ancestors. 
 
 K. Hen. We must not only arm to invade the 
 French, 136 
 
 But lay down our proportions to defend 
 Against the Scot, who will make road upon us 
 
 114 for: for want of 116 puissant: powerful 
 
 120 May-morn of his youth; cf. n. 
 
 126 So hath your highness; cf. n. #- 132 spiritualty: clergy 
 
 137 lay . . . proportions: estimate the requisite number of troops 
 
 138 road: inroad 
 
Henry the Fifth, I. it 1 1 
 
 With all advantages. 
 
 Cant. They of those marches, gracious sover- 
 eign, 140 
 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, 144 
 
 Who hath been still a giddy neighbour to us; 
 For you shall read that my great-grandfather 
 Never went with his forces into France 
 But that the Scot on his unfurnish'd kingdom 
 Came pouring, like the tide into a breach, 149 
 
 With ample and brim fulness of his force, 
 Galling the gleaned land with hot assays, 
 Girding with grievous siege castles and towns; 
 That England, being empty of defence, 153 
 
 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: 156 
 
 When all her chivalry hath been in France 
 And she a mourning widow of her nobles, 
 She hath herself not only well defended, 
 But taken and impounded as a stray 160 
 
 The King of Scots; whom she did send to France, 
 To fill King Edward's fame with prisoner kings, 
 And make your chronicle as rich with praise 
 As is the ooze and bottom of the sea 164 
 
 With sunken wrack and sumless treasuries. 
 
 West. But there's a saying very old and true; 
 
 140 marches: borders 143 coursing snatchers: marauding pilferers 
 
 144 intendment: intention 145 still : always giddy: unstable 
 
 148 unfurnish'd: undefended 151 assays: attacks 
 
 155 fear'd: frightened 160 impounded: imprisoned; cf. n. 
 165 wrack: wreckage 
 
12 The Life of 
 
 'If that you will France win, 
 Then with Scotland first begin' : 168 
 
 For once the eagle England being in prey, 
 To her unguarded nest the weasel Scot 
 Comes sneaking and so sucks her princely eggs, 
 Playing the mouse in absence of the cat, 172 
 
 To tear and havoc more than she can eat. 
 
 Exe. It follows then the cat must stay at home: 
 Yet that is but a crush'd necessity; 
 Since we have locks to safeguard necessaries 176 
 
 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, 180 
 Put into parts, doth keep in one consent, 
 Congreeing in a full and natural close, 
 Like music. 
 
 Cant. Therefore doth heaven divide 
 
 The state of man in divers functions, 184 
 
 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 188 
 
 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, 192 
 
 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: 196 
 
 169 in prey: in search of prey 175 crush'd: forced 
 
 181 parts: used in the musical sense consent: harmony 
 
 182 Congreeing: agreeing close: cadence 
 
 190 sorts: different ranks 194 Make boot upon: plunder 
 
Henry the Fifth, L ii 1 3 
 
 Who, busied in his majesty, surveys 
 The singing masons building roofs of gold, 
 The civil citizens kneading up the honey, 
 The poor mechanic porters crowding in 200 
 
 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, 204 
 
 That many things, having full reference 
 To one consent, may work contrariously ; 
 As many arrows, loosed several ways, 
 Come to one mark; as many ways meet in one 
 town ; 208 
 
 As many fresh streams meet in one salt 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 212 
 
 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. 216 
 
 If we, with thrice such powers left at home, 
 Cannot defend our own doors from the dog, 
 Let us be worried and our nation lose 
 The name of hardiness and policy. 220 
 
 K. Hen. Call in the messengers sent from the 
 Dauphin. [Exit an Attendant.'] 
 
 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 224 
 
 Or break it all to pieces : or there we'll sit, 
 Ruling in large and ample empery 
 
 199 civil: civilian 202 sad-ey'd: sober-looking 
 
 203 executors: executioners 216 withal: therewith 
 
 220 policy: political wisdom 226 empery: empire 
 
14 The Life of 
 
 O'er France and all her almost kingly dukedoms, 
 Or lay these bones in an unworthy urn, 228 . 
 
 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 
 mouth, 232 
 
 Not worshipp'd with a waxen epitaph. 
 
 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. 
 
 First Amb. May 't please your majesty to give us 
 leave 237 
 
 Freely to render what we have in charge; 
 Or shall we sparingly show you far off 
 The Dauphin's meaning and our embassy? 240 
 
 K. Hen. We are no tyrant, but a Christian king; 
 Unto whose grace our passion is as subject 
 As are our wretches fetter'd in our prisons: 
 Therefore with frank and with uncurbed plain- 
 ness 244 
 Tell us the Dauphin's mind. 
 
 First 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. 248 
 
 In answer of which claim, the prince our master 
 Says that you savour too much of your youth, 
 And bids you be advis'd there's nought in France 
 
 231 freely: generously 
 
 233 worshipp'd: honored waxen: perishable 
 
 245 in few: briefly 251 be advis'd: con sider 
 
Henry the Fifth, 7. ii is 
 
 That can be with a nimble galliard won; 252 
 
 You cannot revel into dukedoms there. 
 
 He therefore sends you, meeter for your spirit, 
 
 This tun of treasure ; and, in lieu of this, 
 
 Desires you let the dukedoms that you claim 256 
 
 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 pleasant 
 with us: 
 His present and your pains we thank you for : 
 When we have match'd our rackets to these balls, 261 
 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 264 
 
 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. 268 
 
 We never valu'd this poor seat of England; 
 And therefore, living hence, did give ourself 
 To barbarous licence; as 'tis ever common 
 That men are merriest when they are from home. 272 
 But tell the Dauphin I will keep my state, 
 Be like a king and show my sail of greatness 
 W T hen I do rouse me in my throne of France: 
 For that I have laid by my majesty 276 
 
 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, 
 
 252 galliard: a lively dance 254 meeter: more fitting 
 
 255 tun: a cask in lieu of : in return for 
 
 259 pleasant: facetiou s 263 hazard: part of a tennis-court 
 
 266 chaces; cf. n. 267 comes o'er: taunts 
 
 269 seat: throne 270 living hence; cf. n. 
 
16 The Life of 
 
 Yea, strike the Dauphin blind to look on us. 280 
 
 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 vengeance 
 That shall fly with them: for many a thousand 
 widows 284 
 
 Shall this his mock mock out of their dear husbands; 
 Mock mothers from their sons, mock castles down; 
 And some are yet ungotten and unborn 
 That shall have cause to curse the Dauphin's 
 scorn. 288 
 
 But this lies all within the will of God, 
 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 292 
 
 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 
 When thousands weep more than did laugh at it. 296 
 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. 
 Therefore, my lords, omit no happy hour 300 
 
 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. 
 Therefore let our proportions for these wars 304 
 
 Be soon collected, and all things thought upon 
 That may with reasonable swiftness add 
 More feathers to our wings ; for, God before, 307 
 
 We'll chide this Dauphin at his father's door. 
 
 282 gun-stones: cannon balls (originally made of stone) 
 
 287 ungotten: not begotten 304 proportions: levies 
 
 307 God before: with God's help 
 
Henry the Fifth, II. Chorus 17 
 
 Therefore let every man now task his thought, 
 That this fair action may on foot be brought. 
 
 Exeunt. 
 
 ACT SECOND 
 
 Flourish. Enter Chorus. 
 
 Now all the youth of England are on fire, 
 
 And silken dalliance in the wardrobe lies ; 
 
 Now thrive the armourers, and honour's thought 
 
 Reigns solely in the breast of every man: 4 
 
 They sell the pasture now to buy the horse, 
 
 Following the mirror of all Christian kings, 
 
 With winged heels, as English Mercuries. 
 
 For now sits Expectation in the air 8 
 
 And hides a sword from hilts unto the point 
 
 With crowns imperial, crowns and coronets, 
 
 Promis'd to Harry and his followers. 
 
 The French, advis'd by good intelligence 12 
 
 Of this most dreadful preparation, 
 
 Shake in their fear, and with pale policy 
 
 Seek to divert the English purposes. 
 
 O England ! model to thy inward greatness, 16 
 
 Like little body with a mighty heart, 
 
 What mightst thou do, that honour would thee do, 
 
 Were all thy children kind and natural ! 
 
 But see thy fault ! France hath in thee found out 20 
 
 A nest of hollow bosoms, which he fills 
 
 With treacherous crowns; and three corrupted men, 
 
 One, Richard Earl of Cambridge, and the second, 
 
 Act Second S. d. Flourish: music of trumpets 
 
 12 intelligence: reconnaissance 14 policy: trickery 
 
 18 would: would have 19 kind: true to their kinship 
 
 20 France: the king of France 22 crowns: crown-pieces, gold 
 
is The Life of 
 
 Henry Lord Scroop of Masham, and the third, 
 
 Sir Thomas Grey, knight, of Northumberland, 
 
 Have, for the gilt of France, — O guilt, indeed! — 
 
 Confirm'd conspiracy with fearful France; 
 
 And by their hands this grace of kings must die, — 28 
 
 If hell and treason hold their promises, — 
 
 Ere he take ship for France, and in Southampton. 
 
 Linger your patience on, and we'll digest 
 
 The abuse of distance; force a play. 32 
 
 The sum is paid; the traitors are agreed; 
 
 The king is set from London ; and the scene 
 
 Is now transported, gentles, to Southampton: 
 
 There is the playhouse now, there must you sit: 
 
 And thence to France shall we convey you safe, 
 
 And bring you back, charming the narrow seas 
 
 To give you gentle pass ; for, if we may, 
 
 We'll not offend one stomach with our play. 40 
 
 But, till the king come forth and not till then, 
 
 Unto Southampton do we shift our scene. Exit. 
 
 Scene One 
 
 [London. A street] 
 
 Enter Corporal Nym and Lieutenant Bardolph. 
 
 Bard. Well met, Corporal Nym. 
 
 Nym. Good morrow, Lieutenant Bardolph. 
 
 Bard. What, are Ancient Pistol and you 
 friends yet? 4 
 
 Nym. For my part, I care not: I say little; 
 but when time shall serve, there shall be smiles; 
 
 26 gilt: gold 
 
 28 grace of kings: he who does honor to the title of king 
 
 31,32 Cf.n. 34 is set: has set out 39 pass: passage 
 
 41, 42 Cf. n. 3 Ancient: Ensign 6 smiles; cf. n. 
 
Henry the Fifth, II. i 19 
 
 but that shall be as it may. I dare not fight; 
 but I will wink and hold out mine iron. It is a 
 simple one; but what though? it will toast 
 cheese, and it will endure cold as another man's 
 sword will: and there's an end. 11 
 
 Bard. I will bestow a breakfast to make you 
 friends, and we'll be all three sworn brothers to 
 France: let it be so, good Corporal Nym. 
 
 Nym. Faith, I will live so long as I may, 
 that's the certain of it; and when I cannot live 
 any longer, I will do as I may: that is my rest, 
 that is the rendezvous of it. 18 
 
 Bard. It is certain, corporal, that he is 
 married to Nell Quickly; and, certainly she did 
 you wrong, for you were troth-plight to her. 21 
 
 Nym. I cannot tell; things must be as they 
 may: men may sleep, and they may have their 
 throats about them at that time; and, some say, 
 knives have edges. It must be as it may: though 
 patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod. 
 There must be conclusions. Well, I cannot tell. 
 
 Enter Pistol and [Hostess] Quickly. 
 
 Bard. Here comes Ancient Pistol and his 
 wife. Good corporal, be patient here. How 
 now, mine host Pistol ! 
 Pist. Base tike, call'st thou me host? 
 Now, by this hand, I swear, I scorn the term ; 32 
 
 Nor shall my Nell keep lodgers. 
 
 Host. No, by my troth, not long; for we can- 
 not lodge and board a dozen or fourteen gentle- 
 women that live honestly by the prick of their 
 
 8 wink: shut my eyes 11 there's an end; cf. n. 
 
 17 rest: resolve; cf. n. 18 rendezvous; cf. n. 
 
 21 troth-plight: betrothed 31 tike: cur 
 
20 The Life of 
 
 needles, but it will be thought we keep a bawdy- 
 house straight. O well-a-day, Lady ! if 
 he be not drawn now: we shall see wilful 
 adultery and murder committed. 40 
 
 Bard. Good lieutenant ! good corporal ! offer 
 nothing here. 
 
 Nym. Pish! 
 Pist. Pish for thee, Iceland dog! thou prick-ear'd 
 cur of Iceland ! 44 
 
 Host. Good Corporal Nym, show thy valour 
 and put up your sword. 
 
 Nym. Will you shog off? I would have you 
 solus. 
 
 Pist. Solus, egregious dog? O viper vile! 
 The solus in thy most mervailous face ; 
 The solus in thy teeth, and in thy throat, 
 And in thy hateful lungs, yea, in thy maw, perdy ; 
 And, which is worse, within thy nasty mouth ! 53 
 
 I do retort the solus in thy bowels ; 
 For I can take, and Pistol's cock is up, 
 And flashing fire will follow. 56 
 
 Nym. I am not Barbason; you cannot con- 
 jure me. I have an humour to knock you in- 
 differently well. If you grow foul with me, Pistol, 
 I will scour you with my rapier, as I may, in 
 fair terms: if you would walk off, I would prick 
 your guts a little, in good terms, as I may; and 
 that's the humour of it. 
 
 Pist. O braggart vile and damned furious 
 wight ! 64 
 
 The grave doth gape, and doting death is near; 
 Therefore exhale. 
 
 38 Lady: an oath by the Virgin Mary 44 Iceland dog; cf. n. 
 
 47 shog: move 50 mervailous: marvelous 52 perdy: par Dieu 
 
 55 take: take fire 57 Barbason: name of a fiend; cf. n. 
 
 66 exhale : draw forth (thy sword) 
 
Henry the Fifth, II. i 21 
 
 Bard. Hear me, hear me what I say: he that 
 strikes the first stroke, I'll run him up to the 
 hilts, as I am a soldier. [Draws. ] 
 
 Pist. An oath of mickle might, and fury shall abate. 
 
 Give me thy fist, thy fore-foot to me give; 
 
 Thy spirits are most tall. 72 
 
 Nym. I will cut thy throat, one time or other, 
 
 in fair terms ; that is the humour of it. 
 Pist. 'Couple a gorge!' 
 
 That is the word. I thee defy again. 76 
 
 hound of Crete, think'st thou my spouse to get? 
 No ; to the spital go, 
 
 And from the powdering-tub of infamy 
 
 Fetch forth the lazar kite of Cressid's kind, 80 
 
 Doll Tearsheet she by name, and her espouse: 
 
 1 have, and I will hold, the quondam Quickly 
 For the only she; and — pauca, there's enough. 
 Go to. 
 
 Enter the Boy. 
 
 Boy. Mine host Pistol, you must come to my 
 master, and your hostess: he is very sick, and 
 would to bed. Good Bardolph, put thy face be- 
 tween his sheets and do the office of a warming- 
 pan. Faith, he's very ill. ss 
 
 Bard. Away, you rogue ! 
 
 Host. By my troth, he'll yield the crow a 
 pudding one of these days. The king has killed 
 his heart. Good husband, come home presently. 
 
 Exit [with Boy]. 
 
 Bard. Come, shall I make you two friends? 
 
 70 mickle might: great weight 72 tall: valiant 
 
 75 Couple a gorge: coupe la gorge 77 hound of Crete; cf. n. 
 
 78 spital: hospital 79 powdering-tub; cf. n. 
 
 80 the lazar kite of Cressid's kind; cf. n. 83 pauca: briefly 
 
 86 thy face; cf. n. 92 presently: immediately 
 
22 The Life of 
 
 We must to France together. Why the devil 
 should we keep knives to cut one another's 
 throats ? 96 
 
 Pist. Let floods o'erswell, and fiends for food 
 howl on! 
 
 Nym. You'll pay me the eight shillings I won 
 of you at betting? 
 Pist. Base is the slave that pays. 100 
 
 Nym. That now I will have; that's the 
 humour of it. 
 Pist. As manhood shall compound: push home. 
 
 Draw. 
 Bard. By this sword, he that makes the first 
 thrust, I'll kill him; by this sword, I will. 105 
 
 Pist. Sword is an oath, and oaths must have their 
 course. 
 
 Bard. Corporal Nym, an thou wilt be friends, 
 be friends: an thou wilt not, why then, be ene- 
 mies with me too. Prithee, put up. 109 
 
 Nym. I shall have my eight shillings I won 
 of you at betting? 
 
 Pist. A noble shalt thou have, and present pay ; 
 And liquor likewise will I give to thee, 113 
 
 And friendship shall combine, and brotherhood: 
 I'll live by Nym, and Nym shall live by me. 
 Is not this just? for I shall sutler be 116 
 
 Unto the camp, and profits will accrue. 
 Give me thy hand. 
 
 Nym. I shall have my noble? 
 Pist. In cash most justly paid. 
 
 Nym. Well then, that's the humour of it. 121 
 
 103 compound: decide 107 an: if 
 
 112 noble: 6s. Sd. 
 
 116 sutler: one who sells provisions and liquor 
 
Henry the Fifth, II. ii 23 
 
 Enter Hostess. 
 
 Host. As ever you came of women, come in 
 quickly to Sir John. Ah, poor heart! he is so 
 shaked of a burning quotidian tertian, that it is 
 most lamentable to behold. Sweet men, come to 
 him. 
 
 Nym. The king hath run bad humours on 
 the knight ; that's the even of it. 128 
 
 Pist. Nym, thou hast spoke the right; 
 His heart is fracted and corroborate. 
 
 Nym. The king is a good king: but it must 
 be as it may; he passes some humours and 
 careers. 133 
 
 Pist. Let us condole the knight; for, lambkins, we 
 
 will live. [Exeunt.] 
 
 Scene Two 
 
 [Southampton. A Council-chamber] 
 
 Enter Exeter, Bedford, and Westmoreland. 
 
 Bed. 'Fore God, his Grace is bold to trust these 
 traitors. 
 
 Exe. They shall be apprehended by and by. 
 
 West. How smooth and even they do bear them- 
 selves ! 
 As if allegiance in their bosoms sat, 4 
 
 Crowned with faith and constant loyalty. 
 
 Bed. The king hath note of all that they intend, 
 By interception which they dream not of. 
 
 Exe. Nay, but the man that was his bedfellow, 
 
 124 quotidian tertian; cf. n. 
 
 128 the even of it; cf. 'the long and the short of it' 
 
 130 fracted: broken corroborate; cf. n. 
 
 133 careers; cf. n. 134 condole: sympathise with 
 
 2 by and by : immediately 
 
24 The Life of 
 
 Whom he hath dull'd and cloy'd with gracious 
 favours, 9 
 
 That he should, for a foreign purse, so sell 
 His sovereign's life to death and treachery ! 
 
 Sound trumpets. Enter the King, Scroop, Cambridge, 
 and Grey [with Attendants]. 
 
 K. Hen. Now sits the wind fair, and we will 
 
 aboard. 12 
 
 My Lord of Cambridge, and my kind Lord of 
 
 Masham, 
 And you, my gentle knight, give me your thoughts: 
 Think you not that the powers we bear with us 
 Will cut their passage through the force of 
 France, 16 
 
 Doing the execution and the act 
 For which we have in head assembled them? 
 
 Scroop. No doubt, my liege, if each man do his 
 
 best. 
 K. Hen. I doubt not that ; since we are well per- 
 suaded 20 
 We carry not a heart with us from hence 
 That grows not in a fair consent with ours ; 
 Nor leave not one behind that doth not wish 
 Success and conquest to attend on us. 24 
 
 Cam. Never was monarch better fear'd and lov'd 
 Than is your majesty: there's not, I think, a subject 
 That sits in heart-grief and uneasiness 
 Under the sweet shade of your government. 28 
 
 Grey. True: those that were your father's enemies 
 Have steep'd their galls in honey, and do serve you 
 With hearts create of duty and of zeal. 
 
 K. Hen. We therefore have great cause of thank- 
 fulness, 32 
 
 15 powers: forces 18 in head: as an army 
 
Henry the Fifth, II. ii 25 
 
 And shall forget the office of our hand, 
 Sooner than quittance of desert and merit 
 According to the weight and worthiness. 
 
 Scroop. So service shall with steeled sinews 
 toil, 36 
 
 And labour shall refresh itself with hope, 
 To do your Grace incessant services. 
 
 K. Hen. We judge no less. Uncle of Exeter, 
 JEnlarge_the man committed yesterday 40 
 
 That rail'd against our person: we consider 
 It was excess of wine that set him on; 
 And on his more advice we pardon him. 
 
 Scroop. That's mercy, but too much security: 
 Let him be punish'd, sovereign, lest example 45 
 
 Breed, by his sufferance, more of such a kind. 
 
 K. Hen. O ! let us yet be merciful. 
 
 Cam. So may your highness, and yet punish too. 48 
 
 Grey. Sir, 
 You show great mercy, if you give him life 
 After the taste of much correction. 
 
 K. Hen. Alas ! your too much love and care of 
 me 52 
 
 Are heavy orisons 'gainst this poor wretch. 
 If little faults, proceeding on distemper, 
 Shall not be wink'd at, how shall we stretch our eye 
 When capital crimes, chew'd, swallow'd, and di- 
 gested, 56 
 Appear before us? We'll yet enlarge that man, 
 Though Cambridge, Scroop, and Grey, in their dear 
 
 care, 
 And tender preservation of our person, 
 
 34 quittance : reward _ 40 Enlarge: set free 
 
 43 his more advice: his return to greater coolness of mind 
 46 by his sufferance: because he is pardoned 
 
 53 orisons: petitions 
 
 54 proceeding on distemper: arising from drunkenness 
 
26 The Life of 
 
 Would have him punish'd. And now to our French 
 causes : 60 
 
 Who are the late commissioners? 
 
 Cam. I one, my lord: 
 Your highness bade me ask for it to-day. 
 
 Scroop. So did you me, my liege. 64 
 
 Grey. And I, my royal sovereign. 
 
 K. Hen. Then, Richard, Earl of Cambridge, there 
 is yours; 
 There yours, Lord Scroop of Masham; and, sir knight, 
 Grey of Northumberland, this same is yours: 68 
 
 Read them; and know, I know your worthiness. 
 My Lord of Westmoreland, and uncle Exeter, 
 We will aboard to-night. Why, how now, gentlemen ! 
 What see you in those papers that you lose 72 
 
 So much complexion ? Look ye, how they change ! 
 Their cheeks are paper. Why, what read you there, 
 That hath so cowarded and chas'd your blood 
 Out of appearance? 
 
 Cam. I do confess my fault, 76 
 
 And do submit me to your highness' mercy. 
 
 Grey. ) 
 
 Scroop. ] To which we a11 a PP eah 
 
 K. Hen. The mercy that was quick in us but late 
 By your own counsel is suppress'd and kill'd: 80 
 
 You must not dare, for shame, to talk of mercy; 
 For your own reasons turn into your bosoms, 
 As dogs upon their masters, worrying you. 
 See you, my princes and my noble peers, 84 
 
 These English monsters ! My Lord of Cambridge 
 
 here, 
 You know how apt our love was to accoxd 
 
 61 the late commissioners: those lately commissioned 
 
 63 it: i.e., his commission 79 quick: alive 
 
 86 apt: ready accord: consent 
 
Henry the Fifth, II. ii 27 
 
 To furnish him with all appertinents 
 Belonging to his honour; and this man 88 
 
 Hath, for a few light crowns, lightly conspir'd, 
 And sworn unto the practices of France, 
 To kill us here in Hampton: to the which 
 This knight, no less for bounty bound to us 92 
 
 Than Cambridge is, hath likewise sworn. But O ! 
 What shall I say to thee, Lord Scroop? thou cruel, 
 Ingrateful, savage and inhuman creature ! 
 Thou that didst bear the key of all my counsels, 
 That knew'st the very bottom of my soul, 97 
 
 That almost mightst have coin'd me into gold 
 Wouldst thou have practis'd on me for thy use ! 
 May it be possible that foreign hire 100 
 
 Could out of thee extract one spark of evil 
 That might annoy my finger? 'tis so strange 
 That, though the truth of it stands off as gross 
 As black and white, my eye will scarcely see it. 
 Treason and murder ever kept together, 105 
 
 As two yoke-devils sworn to either' s purpose, 
 Working so gro ssly in a natural cause 
 That admiration did not whoop at them: 108 
 
 But thou, 'gainst all proportion, didst bring in 
 Wonder to wait on treason and on murder: 
 And whatsoever cunning fiend it was 
 That wrought upon thee so preposterously 112 
 
 Hath got the voice in hell for excellence : 
 And other devils that suggest by treasons 
 Do botch and bungle up damnation 
 With patches, colours, and with forms, being 
 fetch'd 116 
 
 90 unto the practices: in accord with the plots 
 
 91 Hampton: Southampton 107 grossly: palpably 
 108 admiration: wonder 109 proportion: seemliness 
 
 112 preposterously: contrary to the natural order of things 
 
 113 voice : verdict 114 suggest: seduce 
 
28 The Life of 
 
 From glistering semblances of piety; 
 
 But he that temper'd thee bade thee stand up, 
 
 Gave thee no instance why thou shouldst do treason, 
 
 Unless to dub thee with the name of traitor. 120 
 
 If that same demon that hath gull'd thee thus 
 
 Should with his lion gait walk the whole world, 
 
 He might return to vasty Tartar back, 
 
 And tell the legions, 'I can never win 124 
 
 A soul so easy as that Englishman's.' 
 
 O! how hast thou with jealousy infected 
 
 The sweetness of affiance. Show men dutiful? 
 
 Why, so didst thou : seem they grave and learned ? 128 
 
 Why, so didst thou: come they of noble family? 
 
 Why, so didst thou : seem they religious ? 
 
 Why, so didst thou: or are they spare in diet, 
 
 Free from gross passion or of mirth or anger, 132 
 
 Constant in spirit, not swerving with the blood, 
 
 Garnish'd and deck'd in modest complement, 
 
 Not working with the eye without the ear, 
 
 And but injaurged judgment trusting neither? 136 
 
 Such and so finely bolted didst thou seem: 
 
 And thus thy fall hath left a kind of blot, 
 
 To mark the full-fraught man and best indu'd 
 
 With some suspicion. I will weep for thee; 140 
 
 For this revolt of thine, methinks, is like 
 
 Another fall of man. Their faults are open: 
 
 Arrest them to the answer of the law ; 
 
 And God acquit them of their practices ! 144 
 
 117 glistering: glittering 
 
 118 temper'd: moulded (to his purpose) stand up; cf. n. 
 
 119 instance: motive 123 Tartar: Tartarus (the classical hell) 
 126 jealousy: suspicion 127 affiance: trust Show: appear 
 133 blood: passion 134 complement: external appearance 
 
 136 but in purged judgment: except after careful scrutiny 
 
 137 bolted: sifted; i.e., tested 
 
 139 full-fraught: fully laden (with virtues) best indu'd: most richly 
 
 endowed 
 
Henry the Fifth, II. ii 29 
 
 Exe. I arrest thee of high treason, by the 
 
 name of Richard Earl of Cambridge. 
 
 I arrest thee of high treason, by the name of 
 
 Henry Lord Scroop of Masham. 148 
 
 I arrest thee of high treason, by the name of 
 
 Thomas Grey, knight, of Northumberland. 
 
 Scroop. Our purposes God justly hath discover'd, 
 And I repent my fault more than my death ; 152 
 
 Which I beseech your highness to forgive, 
 Although my body pay the price of it. 
 
 n Cam. For me, the gold of France did not seduce, 
 Although I did admit it as a motive 156 
 
 The sooner to effect what I intended: 
 But God be thanked for prevention; 
 Which I in sufferance heartily will rejoice, 
 Beseeching God and you to pardon me. 160 
 
 Grey. Never did faithful subject more rejoice 
 At the discovery of most dangerous treason 
 Than I do at this hour joy o'er myself, 
 Prevented from a damned enterprise. 164 
 
 My fault, but not my body, pardon, sovereign. 
 
 K. Hen. God quit you in his mercy ! Hear your 
 sentence. 
 You have conspir'd against our royal person, 
 Join'd with an enemy proclaim'd, and from his 
 coffers 168 
 
 Receiv'd the golden earnest of our death ; 
 Wherein you would have sold your king to slaughter, 
 His princes and his peers to servitude, 
 His subjects to oppression and contempt, 172 
 
 And his whole kingdom into desolation. 
 Touching our person seek we no revenge ; 
 
 151 discover'd : revealed 155-157 Cf.n. 
 
 159 in sufferance: while suffering the penalty 
 
 166 quit: pardon 169 earnest: pledge money 
 
30 The Life of 
 
 But we our kingdom's safety must so tender, 
 
 Whose ruin you have sought, that to her laws 176 
 
 We do deliver you. Get you therefore hence, 
 
 Poor miserable wretches, to your death; 
 
 The taste whereof, God of his mercy give 
 
 You patience to endure, and true repentance 180 
 
 Of all your dearjoffences ! Bear them hence. 
 
 Exeunt [Cambridge, Scroop, and Grey, guarded]. 
 Now, lords, for France ! the enterprise whereof 
 Shall be to you, as us, like glorious. 
 We doubt not of a fair and lucky war, 184 
 
 Since God so graciously hath brought to light 
 This dangerous treason lurking in our way 
 To hinder our beginnings. We doubt not now 
 But every rub is smoothed on our way. 188 
 
 Then forth, dear countrymen: let us deliver 
 Our puissance into the hand of God, 
 Putting it straight in expedition. 
 
 Cheerly to sea ! the signs of war advance : 192 
 
 No king of England, if not king of France. 
 
 Flourish. [Exeunt.] 
 
 Scene Three 
 
 [London. A street] 
 
 Enter Pistol, Nym, Bardolph, Boy, and Hostess. 
 
 Host. Prithee, honey-sweet husband, let me 
 bring thee to Staines. 
 Pist. No; for my manly heart doth yearn. 
 
 175 tender: cherish 181 dear: grievous 
 
 183 like: in equal degree 188 rub: obstacle 
 
 191 straight: at once expedition: motion 
 
 192 signs: standards advance: raise 
 
 2 bring: accompany Staines: first stage on the road from London to 
 
 Southampton 3 yearn: grieve 
 
Henry the Fifth, II. Hi 31 
 
 Bardolph, be blithe; Nym, rouse thy vaunting 
 
 veins ; 4 
 
 Boy, bristle thy courage up; for Falstaff he is dead, 
 And we must yearn therefore. 
 
 Bard. Would I were with him, wheresome'er 
 he is, either in heaven or in hell ! 8 
 
 Host. Nay, sure, he's not in hell: he's in Ar- 
 thur's bosom, if ever man went to Arthur's bo- 
 som. A' made a finer end and went away an^it 
 had been any christom child; a' parted even just 12 
 between twelve and one, even at the turning o' 
 the tide: for after I saw him fumble with the 
 sheets and play with flowers and smile upon his 
 fingers' ends, I knew there was but one way ; for 16 
 his nose was as sharp as a pen, and a' babbled of 
 green fields. 'How now, Sir John !' quoth I : 
 'what, man ! be of good cheer.' So a' cried out 
 'God, God, God !' three or four times : now 1, 20 
 to comfort him, bid him a' should not think of 
 God, I hoped there was no need to trouble him- 
 self with any such thoughts yet. So a' bade me 
 lay more clothes on his feet: I put my hand 24 
 into the bed and felt them, and they were as 
 cold as any stone; then I felt to his knees, and 
 so upward, and upward, and all was as cold as 
 any stone. 28 
 
 Nym. They say he cried out of sack. 
 
 Host. Ay, that a' did. 
 
 Bard. And of women. 
 
 Host. Nay, that a' did not. 32 
 
 9 Arthur's bosom; cf. n. 11 A': he an: as if 
 
 12 christom: not yet a month old 
 
 17, 18 and a' babbled of green fields; cf. n. 
 
 29 of: against sack: a white wine 
 
32 The Life of 
 
 Boy. Yes, that a' did; and said they were 
 devils incarnate. 
 
 Host. A' could never abide carnation; 'twas 
 a colour he never liked. 36 
 
 Boy. A' said once, the devil would have him 
 about women. 
 
 Host. A' did in some sort, indeed, handle 
 women; but then he was rheumatic, and talked 
 of the whore of Babylon. 41 
 
 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? 44 
 
 Bard. Well, the fuel is gone that maintained 
 that fire: that's all the riches I got in his ser- 
 vice. 
 
 Nym. Shall we shog? the king will be gone 
 from Southampton. 49 
 
 Pist. Come, let's away. My love, give me thy lips. 
 Look to my chattels and my moveables: 
 Let senses rule, the word is, 'Pitch and pay'; 52 
 
 Trust none; 
 
 For oaths are straws, men's faiths are wafer-cakes, 
 And hold-fast is the only dog, my duck: 
 Therefore, 'caveto' be thy counsellor. 56 
 
 Go, clear thy crystals. Yoke-fellows in arms, 
 Let us to France ; like horse-leeches, my boys, 
 To suck, to suck, the very blood to suck! 
 
 Boy. And that's but unwholesome food, 
 they say. 61 
 
 Pist. Touch her soft mouth, and march. 
 Bard. Farewell, hostess. [Kissing her.] 
 
 39 handle: talk of 40 rheumatic: error for 'lunatic' 
 
 52 senses: prudence word: motto Pitch and pay: cash dozvn 
 
 54 wafer-cakes: i.e., very fragile 56 caveto: beware 
 57 clear thy crystals: dry your eyes (?) 
 
Henry the Fifth, II. iv 33 
 
 Nym. I cannot kiss, that is the humour of 
 it; but, adieu. 65 
 
 Pist. Let housewifery appear: keep close, I 
 
 thee command. 
 
 Host. Farewell; adieu. Exeunt. 
 
 Scene Four 
 
 [France. An Apartment in the French King's 
 Palace] 
 
 Flourish. Enter the French King, the Dauphin, the 
 Dukes of Berri and Bretagne [the Constable, 
 and Others]. 
 
 Fr. King. Thus comes the English with full power 
 upon us; 
 And more than carefully it us concerns 
 To answer royally in our defences. 
 Therefore the Dukes of Berri and Bretagne, 4 
 
 Of Brabant and of Orleans, shall make forth, 
 And you, Prince Dauphin, with all swift dispatch, 
 To line and new repair our towns of war 
 With men of courage and with means defendant: 8 
 For England his approaches makes as fierce 
 As waters to the sucking of a gulf: 
 It fits us then to be as provident 
 
 As fear may teach us, out of late examples 12 
 
 Left by the fatal and neglected English 
 Upon our fields. 
 
 Dau. My most redoubted father, 
 
 It is most meet we arm us 'gainst the foe; 
 
 66 housewifery: economy Scene Four S. d. Constable; cf. n. 
 
 2 more than carefully: with more than common care 
 
 7 line: strengthen 9 England.: the king of England 
 
 10 gulf: whirlpool 13 fatal and neglected: fatally neglected 
 
34 The Life of 
 
 For peace itself should not so dull a kingdom, — 
 Though war nor no known quarrel were in ques- 
 tion, — 17 
 But that defences, musters, preparations, 
 Should be maintain'd, assembled, and collected, 
 As were a war in expectation. 20 
 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 show of fear; 
 No, with no more than if we heard that England 
 Were busied with a Whitsun morris-dance: " 1 ^ 25 
 For, my good liege, she is so idly king'd, 
 Her sceptre so fantastically borne 
 By a vain, giddy, shallow, humorous youth, 28 
 That fear attends her not. 
 
 Con. O peace, Prince Dauphin ! 
 
 You are too much mistaken in this king. 
 Question your Grace the late ambassadors, 
 With what great state he heard their embassy, 
 How well supplied with noble counsellors, 33 
 
 How modest in exception, and withal 
 How terrible in constant resolution, 
 And you shall find his vanities forespent 36 
 
 Were but the outside of the Roman Brutus, 
 Covering discretion with a coat of folly; 
 As gardeners do with ordure hide those roots 
 That shall first spring and be most delicate. 40 
 
 Dau. Well, 'tis not so, my lord high constable; 
 But though we think it so, it is no matter : 
 In cases of defence 'tis best to weigh 
 The enemy more mighty than he seems: 44 
 
 So the proportions of defence are nll'd; 
 
 25 Whitsun morris-dance; cf. n. 28 humorous: full of whims 
 
 34 exception: offering objections 
 
 36 forespent: past 37 Brutus; cf. n. 
 
Henry the Fifth, II. iv 35 
 
 Which of a weak and niggardly projection 
 Doth like a miser spoil his coat with scanting 
 A little cloth. 
 
 Fr. King. Think we King Harry strong; 4S 
 
 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: 52 
 
 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 ; 56 
 
 Whiles that his mountain sire, on mountain standing, 
 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 60 
 
 The patterns that by God and by French fathers 
 Had twenty years been made. This is a stem 
 Of that victorious stock; and let us fear 
 The native mightiness and fate of him. 64 
 
 Enter a Messenger. 
 
 Mess. Ambassadors from Harry King of England 
 Do crave admittance to your majesty. 
 
 Fr. King. We'll give them present audience. Go, 
 and bring them. 
 
 [Exeunt Messenger and certain Lords.'] 
 
 You see this chase is hotly follow'd, friends. 68 
 
 Dau. Turn head, and stop pursuit ; for coward dogs 
 
 Most spend their mouths when what they seem to 
 
 threaten 
 
 46 projection: calculation SO been flesh'd: preyed; cf. n. 
 
 57 mountain sire: mighty father 
 
 64 fate: what he is destined to perform 67 present: immediate 
 
36 The Life of 
 
 Runs far before them. Good my sovereign, 
 
 Take up the English short, and let them know 
 
 Of what a monarchy you are the head: 73 
 
 Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin 
 
 As self-neglecting. 
 
 Enter Exeter [with Lords and train], 
 
 Fr. King. From our brother of England? 
 
 Exe. From him; and thus he greets your maj- 
 esty. 76 
 He wills you, in the name of God Almighty, 
 That you divest yourself, and lay apart 
 The borrow'd glories that by gift of heaven, 
 By law of nature and of nations 'long 80 
 To him and to his heirs ; namely, the crown 
 And all wide-stretched honours that pertain 
 By custom and the ordinance of times 
 Unto the crown of France. That you may know 
 'Tis no sinister nor no awkward claim, 85 
 Pick'd from the worm-holes of long-vanish'd days, 
 Nor from the dust of old oblivion rak'd, 
 He sends you this most memorable line, 88 
 In every branch truly demonstrative; 
 Willing you overlook this pedigree ; 
 And when you find him evenly _deriyji„. 
 From his most fam'd of famous ancestors, 92 
 Edward the Third, he bids you then resign 
 Your crown and kingdom, indirectly held 
 From him the native and true challenger. 
 
 Fr. King. Or else what follows ? 96 
 
 Exe. Bloody constraint; for if you hide the crov/n 
 Even in your hearts, there will he rake for it: 
 
 80 'long: belong 85 sinister: unfair awkward: perverse 
 
 88 line: pedigree 91 evenly deriv'd: directly descended 
 
 94 indirectly: wrongfully 
 
Henry the Fifth, II. iv 37 
 
 Therefore in fierce tempest is he coming, 
 
 In thunder and in earthquake like a Jove, 100 
 
 That, if requiring fail, he will compel; 
 
 And bids you, in the bowels of the Lord, 
 
 Deliver up the crown, and to take mercy 
 
 On the poor souls for whom this hungry war 104 
 
 Opens his vasty jaws; and on your head 
 
 Turning the widows' tears, the orphans' cries, 
 
 The dead men's blood, the pining maidens' groans, 
 
 For husbands, fathers, and betrothed lovers, 108 
 
 That shall be swallow'd in this controversy. 
 
 This is his claim, his threat'ning, and my message; 
 
 Unless the Dauphin be in presence here, 
 
 To whom expressly I bring greeting too. 112 
 
 Fr. King. For us, we will consider of this further : 
 To-morrow shall you bear our full intent 
 Back to our brother of England. 
 
 Dau. For the Dauphin, 
 
 I stand here for him: what to him from Eng- 
 land? 116 
 
 Exe. Scorn and defiance, slight regard, contempt, 
 And anything that may not misbecome 
 The mighty sender, doth he prize you at. 
 Thus says my king: an if your father's highness 120 
 Do not, in grant of all demands at large, 
 Sweeten the bitter mock you sent his majesty, 
 He'll call you to so hot an answer of it, 
 That caves and womby vaultages of France 124 
 
 Shall chide your trespass and return your mock 
 In second accent of his ordnance. 
 
 Dau. Say, if my father render fair return, 
 It is against my will; for I desire 128 
 
 101 requiring: requesting 102 in the bowels: by the mercy 
 
 124 womby vaultages: deep caverns 
 
 126 second accent of his ordnance: echoes of his cannon 
 
38 The Life of 
 
 Nothing but odds with England: to that end, 
 As matching to his youth and vanity, 
 I did present him with the Paris balls. 
 
 Exe. He'll make your Paris Louvre shake for 
 it, 132 
 
 Were it the mistress-court of mighty Europe: 
 And, be assur'd, you'll find a difference — 
 As we his subjects have in wonder found — 
 Between the promise of his greener days 136 
 
 And these he masters now. Now he weighs time 
 Even to the utmost grain ; that you shall read 
 In your own losses, if he stay in France. 
 
 Fr. King. To-morrow shall you know our mind at 
 full. Flourish. 140 
 
 Exe. Dispatch us with all speed, lest that our king 
 Come here himself to question our delay ; 
 For he is footed in this land already. 
 
 Fr. King. You shall be soon dispatch'd with fair 
 conditions : 144 
 
 A night is but small fyreath and little pause 
 To answer matters of this consequence. Exeunt. 
 
 ACT THIRD 
 
 Flourish. Enter Chorus. 
 
 Thus with imagin'd wing our swift scene flies 
 
 In motion of no less celerity 
 
 Than that of thought. Suppose that you have seen 
 
 The well-appointed king at Hampton pier 4 
 
 Embark his royalty; and his brayje fleet 
 
 With silken streamers the young Phoebus fanning: 
 
 129 odds: discord 136 greener: younger 
 
 137 masters: possesses 145 breath: breathing space 
 
 1 imagin'd wing: wings of imagination 5 brave: fine 
 
Henry the Fifth, III. 39 
 
 Play with your fancies, and in them behold 
 Upon the hempen tackle ship-boys climbing; 8 
 
 Hear the shrill whistle which doth order give 
 To sounds confus'd; behold the threaden sails, 
 Borne with the invisible and creeping wind, 
 Draw the huge bottoms through the furrow'd sea, 12 
 Breasting the lofty surge. O ! do but think 
 You stand upon the rivage and behold 
 A city on the inconstant billows dancing; 
 For so appears this fleet majestical, 16 
 
 Holding due course to Harfleur. Follow, follow ! 
 Grapple your minds to sternage of this navy, 
 And leave your England, as dead midnight still, 
 Guarded with grandsires, babies, and old women, 20 
 Either past or not arriv'd to pith and puissance: 
 For who is he, whose chin is but enrich'd 
 With one appearing hair, that will not follow 
 Those cull'd and choice-drawn cavaliers to France ? 24 
 Work, work your thoughts, and therein see a siege ; 
 Behold the ordnance on their carriages, 
 With fatal mouths gaping on girded Harfleur. 
 Suppose the ambassador from the French comes 
 back ; 28 
 
 Tells Harry that the king doth offer him 
 Katharine his daughter; and with her, to dowry, 
 Some petty and unprofitable dukedoms: 
 The offer likes not : and the nimble gunner 32 
 
 With linstock now the devilish cannon touches, 
 
 Alarum, and chambers go off. 
 And down goes all before them. Still be kind, 
 And eke out our performance with your mind. 
 
 Exit. 
 
 14 rivage: shore 18 to sternage : astern 27 girded : besieged 
 
 32 likes: pleases 33 linstock: stick to hold the gunner's match 
 
 S. d. Alarum: call to arms chambers: small cannon 
 
40 The Life of 
 
 Scene One 
 
 [France. Before Harfleur] 
 
 Enter the King, Exeter, Bedford, and Gloucester. 
 Alarum: scaling ladders. 
 
 K. Hen. Once more unto the breach, dear friends, 
 once more; 
 Or close the wall up with our English dead! 
 In peace there's nothing so becomes a man 
 As modest stillness and humility: 4 
 
 But when the blast of war blows in our ears, 
 Then imitate the action of the tiger; 
 Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood, 
 Disguise fair nature with hard-favour'd rage; 8 
 
 Then lend the eye a terrible aspect; 
 Let it pry through the portage of the head 
 Like the brass cannon; let the brow o'erwhelm it 
 As fearfully as doth a galled rock 12 
 
 O'erhang and jutty his confounded base, 
 Swill'd with the wild and wasteful ocean. 
 Now set the teeth and stretch the nostril wide, 
 Hold hard the breath, and bend up every spirit 
 To his full height ! On, on, you noblest English ! 17 
 Whose blood is fet from fathers of war-proof; 
 Fathers that, like so many Alexanders, 
 Have in these parts from morn till even fought, 
 And sheath'd their swords for lack of argument. 21 
 Dishonour not your mothers; now attest 
 That those whom you call'd fathers did beget you. 
 Be copy now to men of grosser blood, 24 
 
 8 hard-favour'd : ugly 10 portage: porthole 
 
 11 o'erwhelm: overhang 12 galled: undermined 
 
 13 jutty: project beyond confounded: ruined 
 
 14 Swill'd with: gulped down by 
 
 18 fet: fetched war-proof : valor proven in war 
 
 21 argument: subject of contention 24 copy: example 
 
Henry the Fifth, III. ii *i 
 
 And teach them how to war. And you, good yeomen, 
 Whose limbs were made in England, show us here 
 The mettle of your pasture ; let us swear 
 That you are worth your breeding; which I doubt 
 not ; 28 
 
 For there is none of you so mean and base 
 That hath not noble lustre in your eyes. 
 I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips, 
 Straining upon the start. The game's afoot: 32 
 
 Follow your spirit; and, upon this charge 
 Cry 'God for Harry, England,- and Saint George !' 
 
 [Exeunt.] Alarum, and chambers go off. 
 
 Scene Two 
 
 [The Same] 
 
 Enter Nym, Bardolph, Pistol, and Boy. 
 
 Bard. On, on, on, on, on! to the breach, to 
 the breach ! 
 
 Nym. Pray thee, corporal, stay: the knocks 
 are too hot; and for mine own part, I have not 4 
 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 hu- 
 mours do abound: 8 
 'Knocks go and come: God's vassals drop and die; 
 And sword and shield 
 In bloody field 
 Doth win immortal fame.' 12 
 
 Boy. Would I were in an alehouse in London ! 
 I would give all my fame for a pot of ale, and 
 safety. 
 
 27 mettle of your pasture: quality of your rearing 
 
 31 in the slips: in leash 3 corporal; cf. n. 
 
 5 case: set 6 plain-song: simple truth; cf. n. 
 
42 The Life of 
 
 Pist. And I: 16 
 
 'If wishes would prevail with me, 
 My purpose should not fail with me, 
 But thither would I hie.' 
 Boy. 'As duly, 20 
 
 But not as truty, 
 As bird doth sing on bough.' 
 
 Enter Fluellen and beats them in. 
 
 Flu. Up to the breach, you dogs ! avaunt, you cul- 
 
 lions ! 
 Pist. Be mercif ul, great duke, to men of mould ! 24 
 
 Abate thy rage, abate thy manly rage! 
 
 Abate thy rage, great duke ! 
 
 Good bawcock, bate thy rage ; use lenity, sweet chuck ! 
 Nym. These be good humours ! your honour 
 wins bad humours. 
 
 . Exit [with Pistol and Bardolph]. 
 Boy. [Aside."] As young as I am, I have ob- 
 served 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 antics do not amount to a man. For 34 
 Bardolph, he is white-livered and red-faced; 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 whole weapons. For Nym, he hath 
 heard that men of few words are the best men ; 40 
 and therefore he scorns to say his prayers, lest a' 
 should be thought a coward : but his few bad words 
 
 23 cullions: ivretches 
 
 24 men of mould: men of earth; i.e., mere mortals 
 
 27 bawcock, chuck: term s of endearment 31 swashers: braggarts 
 
 34 antics: buffoons 
 
Henry the Fifth, III. ii 43 
 
 are matched with as few good deeds ; for a' never 
 broke any man's head but his own, and that was 44 
 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 half-pence. Nym and Bardolph are 48 
 sworn brothers in filching, and in Calais they 
 stole a fire-shovel: I knew by that piece of ser- 
 vice the men would carry coals. They would 
 have me as familiar with men's pockets as their 52 
 gloves or their handkerchers : 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 56 
 and seek some better service: their villainy goes 
 against my weak stomach, and therefore I must 
 cast it up. Exit. 
 
 Enter Gower. 
 
 Gow. Captain Fluellen, you must come pre- 
 sently to the mines: the Duke of Gloucester 
 would speak with you. 62 
 
 Flu. To the mines ! tell you the duke it is 
 not so good to come to the mines. For look 
 you, the mines is not according to the disciplines 
 of the war ; the concavities of it is not sufficient ; 66 
 for, look you, th' athversary — you may discuss 
 unto the duke, look you — is digt himself four 
 yard under the countermines; by Cheshu, I 
 think, a' will plow up all if there is not better 
 directions. 71 
 
 Gow. The Duke of Gloucester, to whom the 
 
 46 purchase: slang term for money gained by cheating 
 
 51 carry coals: swallow insults 65 the mines is not; cf. n. 
 
 67 discuss: explain 69 Cheshu: Jesu 
 
44 The Life of 
 
 order 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? 76 
 
 Gow. I think it be. 
 
 Flu. By Cheshu, he is an ass, as in the world: 
 I will verify as much in his beard: he has no 
 more directions in the true disciplines of the 
 wars, look you, of the Roman disciplines, than 
 is a puppy-dog. 82 
 
 Enter Macmorris and Captain Jamy. 
 
 Gow. Here a' comes; and the Scots captain, 
 Captain Jamy, with him. 
 
 Flu. Captain Jamy is a marvellous falorous 
 gentleman, that is certain ; and of great expedi- 86 
 tion and knowledge in th' aunchient wars, upon 
 my particular knowledge of his directions: by 
 Cheshu, he will maintain his argument as well 
 as any military man in the world, in the disci- 
 plines of the pristine wars of the Romans. 91 
 
 Jamy. I say gud day, Captain Fluellen. 
 
 Flu. God-den to your worship, good Captain 
 James. 
 
 Gow. How now, Captain Macmorris ! have 
 you quit the mines? have the pioners given o'er? 96 
 
 Mac. By Chrish, la! tish ill done: the work 
 ish give over, the trumpet sound the retreat. By 
 my hand, I swear, and my father's soul, the 
 work ish ill done; it ish give over: I would have 
 blowed up the town, so Chrish save me, la ! in an 
 hour : O ! tish ill done, tish ill done ; by my 
 hand, tish ill done ! 103 
 
 78 as: as great as any 93 God-den: good evening 
 
 96 pioners: sappers 
 
Henry the Fifth, III. ii 45 
 
 Flu. Captain Macmorris, I beseech you now, 
 will you voutsafe me, look you, a few disputa- 
 tions with you, as partly touching or concern- 
 ing the disciplines of the war, the Roman wars, 
 in the way of argument, look you, and friendly 
 communication; partly to satisfy my opinion, 
 and partly for the satisfaction, look you, of my 
 mind, as touching the direction of the military 
 discipline: that is the point. 112 
 
 J amy. It sail be vary gud, gud feith, gud cap- 
 tains bath: and I sail quit you with gud leve, 
 as I may pick occasion; that sail I, marry. 
 
 Mac. It is no time to discourse, so Chrish 
 save me: 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 beseeched, and 119 
 the trumpet call us to the breach; and we talk, 
 and be 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 no- 
 thing done, so Chrish sa' me, la ! 125 
 
 Jamy. By the mess, ere theise eyes of mine 
 take themselves to slumber, aile do gud service, 
 or aile lig i' the grund for it ; ay, or go to death ; 
 and aile pay 't as valorously as I may, that 
 sal I suerly do, that is the breff and the long. 
 Marry, I wad full fain heard some question 
 'tween you Jtway. 132 
 
 Flu. Captain Macmorris, I think, look you, 
 under your correction, there is not many of 
 your nation — 135 
 
 115 marry: originally an oath by the Virgin Mary 
 
 119 beseeched: i.e., besieged 122 sa' : save 
 
 126 mess: Mass 128 lig: lie 132 tway: two 
 
46 The Life of 
 
 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? 139 
 
 Flu. Look you, if you take the matter other- 
 wise than is meant, Captain Macmorris, per- 
 adventure I shall think you do not use me with 
 that affability as in discretion you ought to use 
 me, look you ; being as good a man as yourself, 
 both in the disciplines of war, and in the deriva- 
 tion of my birth, and in other particularities. 146 
 
 Mac. I do not know you so good a man as 
 myself: so Chrish save me, I will cut off your 
 head. 149 
 
 Gow. Gentlemen both, you will mistake each 
 other. 
 
 J amy. A ! that's a foul fault. A parley. 
 
 Gow. The town sounds a parley. 153 
 
 Flu. Captain Macmorris, when there is more 
 better opportunity to be required, look you, I 
 will be so bold as to tell you I know the disci- 
 plines of war; and there is an end. 
 
 Exit [with Gower and the other captains]. 
 
 Scene Three 
 
 [Before the Gates of Harfleur] 
 
 [The Governor and some Citizens on the walls; the 
 English forces below.] Enter the King and all 
 /his Train before the gates. 
 
 K. Hen. How yet resolves the governor of the 
 town? 
 
 '/ 
 
 136-139 Of my . . . nation; cf. n. 
 
Henry the Fifth, III. Hi 47 
 
 This is the latest parle we will admit: 
 
 Therefore to our best mercy give yourselves; 
 
 Or like to men proud of destruction 4 
 
 Defy us to our worst: for, as I am a soldier, — 
 
 A name that in my thoughts becomes me best, — 
 
 If I begin the battery once again, 
 
 1 will not leave the half-achieved Harfleur 8 
 Till in her ashes she lie buried. 
 
 The gates of mercy shall be all shut up, 
 
 And the flesh'd soldier, rough and hard of heart, 
 
 In liberty of bloody hand shall range 12 
 
 With conscience wide as hell, mowing like grass 
 
 Your fresh-fair virgins and your flowering infants. 
 
 What is it then to me, if impious war, 
 
 Array'd in flames like to the prince of fiends, 16 
 
 Do, with his smirch'd complexion, all fell feats 
 
 Enlink'd to waste and desolation? 
 
 What is 't to me, when you yourselves are cause, 
 
 If your pure maidens fall into the hand 20 
 
 Of hot and forcing violation? 
 
 What rein can hold licentious wickedness 
 
 When down the hill he holds his fierce career? 
 
 We may as bootless spend our vain command 
 
 Upon the enraged soldiers in their spoil 25 
 
 As send precepts to the leviathan 
 
 To come ashore. Therefore, you men of Harfleur, 
 
 Take pity of your town and of your people, 28 
 
 Whiles yet my soldiers are in my command; 
 
 Whiles yet the cool and temperate wind of grace 
 
 O'erblows the filthy and contagious clouds 
 
 Of heady murder, spoil, and villainy. 32 
 
 2 parle: parley 11 flesh'd: hardened by bloodshed 
 17 fell feats: savage practices 18 Enlink'd to: associated with 
 24 bootless: uselessly 31 O'erblows: blows away 
 32 heady: headstrong 
 
48 The Life of 
 
 If not, why, in a moment, look to see 
 
 The blind and bloody soldier with foul hand 
 
 Defile the locks of your shrill-shrieking daughters ; 
 
 Your fathers taken by the silver beards, 36 
 
 And their most reverend heads dash'd to the walls ; 
 
 Your naked infants spitted upon pikes, 
 
 Whiles the mad mothers with their howls confus'd 
 
 Do break the clouds, as did the wives of Jewry 
 
 At Herod's bloody-hunting slaughtermen. 41 
 
 What say you? will you yield, and this avoid? 
 
 Or, guilty in defence, be thus destroy'd? 
 
 Gov. Our expectation hath this day an end. 
 The Dauphin, whom of succour we entreated, 45 
 
 Returns us that his powers are yet not ready 
 To raise so great a siege. Therefore, great king, 
 We yield our town and lives to thy soft mercy. 
 Enter our gates ; dispose of us and ours ; 49 
 
 For we no longer are defensible. 
 
 K. Hen. Open your gates ! Come, uncle Exeter, 
 Go you and enter Harfleur; there remain, 52 
 
 And fortify it strongly 'gainst the French: 
 Use mercy to them all. For us, dear uncle, 
 The winter coming on and sickness growing 
 Upon our soldiers, we will retire to Calais. 56 
 
 To-night in Harfleur will we be your guest; 
 To-morrow for the march are we addrest. 
 
 Flourish, and enter the town. 
 
 40 Jewry: Judea; cf. St. Matthew 2. 16-18. 45 of: for 
 
 46 "Returns: answers 50 defensible: capable of resisting 
 
 58 addrest: prepared 
 
Henry the Fifth, III. iv 49 
 
 Scene Four 
 
 [The French King's Palace] 
 
 Enter Katharine and [Alice,] an old gentlewoman. 
 
 Kath. Alice, tu as ete en Angleterre, et tu 
 paries bien le langage. 
 
 Alice. Un peu, madame. 3 
 
 Kath. Je te prie, m'enseignez ; il faut que 
 j'apprenne a parler. Comment appelez-vous la 
 main en anglais? 
 
 Alice. La main? elle est appelee, de hand. 
 
 Kath. De hand. Et les doigts? 8 
 
 Alice. Les doigts? ma foi, j'oublie les 
 doigts; mais je me souviendrai. Les doigts? 
 je pense qu'ils sont appeles de fingres; oui, de 
 fingres. 12 
 
 Kath. La main, de hand; les doigts, de 
 fingres. Je pense que je suis le bon ecolier; 
 j'ai gagne deux mots d'anglais vitement. 
 Comment appelez-vous les ongles? 16 
 
 Alice. Les ongles? nous les appelons, de nails. 
 
 Kath. De nails. ficoutez; dites-moi, si je 
 parle bien: de hands, de fingres, et de nails. 
 
 Alice. C'est bien dit, madame; il est fort 
 bon anglais. 21 
 
 Kath. Dites-moi l'anglais pour le bras. 
 
 Alice. De arm, madame. 
 
 Kath. Et le coude? 24 
 
 Alice. De elbow. 
 
 Kath. De elbow. Je m'en fais la repetition 
 de tous les mots que vous m'avez appris des a 
 present. 28 
 
 Alice. II est trop difficile, madame, comme je 
 pense. 
 
so The Life of 
 
 Kath. Excusez-moi, Alice ; ecoutez : de hand, 
 de fingres, de nails, de arraa, de bilbow. 32 
 
 Alice. De elbow, madame. 
 
 Kath. O Seigneur Dieu ! je m'en oublie; de 
 elbow. Comment appelez-vous le col? 
 
 Alice. De nick, madame. 36 
 
 Kath. De nick. Et le menton? 
 
 Alice. De chin. 
 
 Kath. De sin. Le col, de nick: le menton, de 
 sin. 40 
 
 Alice. Oui. Sauf votre honneur, en verite, 
 vous prononcez les mots aussi droit que les 
 natifs d'Angleterre. 
 
 Kath. Je ne doute point d'apprendre, par la 
 grace de Dieu, et en peu de temps. 45 
 
 Alice. N'avez-vous pas deja oublie ce que je 
 vous ai enseigne? 
 
 Kath. Non, je reciterai a vous promptement: 
 De hand, de fingre, de mails, — 49 
 
 Alice. De nails, madame. 
 
 Kath. De nails, de arme, de ilbow. 
 
 Alice. Sauf votre honneur, de elbow. 52 
 
 Kath. Ainsi dis-je; de elbow, de nick, et de 
 sin. Comment appelez-vous le pied et la robe? 
 
 Alice. De foot, madame; et de coun. 55 
 
 Kath. De foot, et de coun? O Seigneur 
 Dieu! ce sont mots de son mauvais, corruptible, 
 gros, et impudique, et non pour les dames 
 d'honneur d'user: je ne voudrais prononcer 
 ces mots devant les seigneurs de France, pour 
 tout le monde. Foh ! le foot, et le coun. Nean- 
 moins je reciterai une autre fois ma lecon 
 ensemble: de hand, de fingre, de nails, de arm, 
 de elbow, de nick, de sin, de foot, de coun. 64 
 
Henry the Fifth, III. v 5 1 
 
 Alice. Excellent, madame ! 
 Kath. C'est assez pour une fois: allons-nous 
 a diner. Exit [with Alice"]. 
 
 Scene Five 
 
 [Rouen] 
 
 Enter the King of France, the Dauphin, [Duke of 
 Bourbon,] the Constable of France, and Others. 
 
 Fr. King. 'Tis certain, he hath pass'd the river 
 Somme. 
 
 Con. And if he be not fought withal, my lord, 
 Let us not live in France ; let us quit all, 
 And give our vineyards to a barbarous people. 4 
 
 Dau. O Dieu vivant ! shall a few sprays of us, 
 The emptying of our fathers' luxury, 
 Our scions, put in wild and savage stock, 
 Spirt up so suddenly into the clouds, 8 
 
 And overlook their grafters? 
 
 Bour. Normans, but bastard Normans, Norman 
 bastards ! 
 Mort de ma vie ! if they march along 
 Unfought withal, but I will sell my dukedom, 12 
 To buy a slobbery and a dirty farm 
 In that nook-shotten isle of Albion. 
 
 Con. Dieu de batailles ! where have they this 
 mettle ? 
 Is not their climate foggy, raw, and dull, 16 
 
 On whom, as in despite, the sun looks pale, 
 Killing their fruit with frowns? Can sodden water, 
 A drench for sur-rein'd jades, their barley-broth, 
 
 5 sprays: branches 6 emptying: issue luxury: lust 
 
 7 scions; cf. n. 9 overlook: rise above 12 but; cf. n. 
 
 14 nook-shotten: running out into promontories 
 
 19 drench: bran and water sur-rein'd jades: over-ridden horses 
 
 barley-broth: beer 
 
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 Decoct their cold blood to such valiant heat? 20 
 
 And shall our quick blood, spirited with wine, 
 Seem frosty ? O ! for honour of our land, 
 Let us not hang like roping icicles 
 Upon our houses' thatch, whiles a more frosty- 
 people 24 
 Sweat drops of gallant youth in our rich fields ; 
 Poor we may call them in their native lords. 
 
 Dau. By faith and honour, 
 Our madams mock at us, and plainly say 28 
 
 Our mettle is bred out ; and they will give 
 Their bodies to the lust of English youth 
 To new-store France with bastard warriors. 
 
 Bour. They bid us to the English dancing- 
 schools, 32 
 And teach lavoltas high and swift corantos; 
 Saying our grace is only in our heels, 
 And that we are most lofty runaways. 
 
 Fr. King. Where is Montj oy the herald ? speed him 
 hence : 36 
 
 Let him greet England with our sharp defiance. 
 Up, princes ! and, with spirit of honour edg'd 
 More sharper than your swords, hie to the field: 
 Charles Delabreth, High Constable of France; 40 
 You Dukes of Orleans, Bourbon, and of Berri, 
 Alencon, Brabant, Bar, and Burgundy; 
 Jaques Chatillon, Rambures, Vaudemont, 
 Beaumont, Grandpre, Roussi, and Fauconberg, 
 Foix, Lestrale, Bouciqualt, and Charolois; 45 
 
 High dukes, great princes, barons, lords, and knights, 
 For your great seats now quit you of great shames. 
 Bar Harry England, that sweeps through our land 
 
 20 Decoct: warm _ _ 23 roping: dripping 
 
 33 lavoltas, corantos: the names of certain lively dances 
 36 Mont joy; cf. n. 
 
Henry the Fifth, III. vi 53 
 
 With pennons painted in the blood of Harfleur: 
 
 Rush on his host, as doth the melted snow 
 
 Upon the valleys, whose low vassal seat 
 
 The Alps doth spit and void his rheum upon: 52 
 
 Go down upon him, you have power enough, 
 
 And in a captive chariot into Roan 
 
 Bring him our prisoner. 
 
 Con. This becomes the great. 
 
 Sorry am I his numbers are so few, 56 
 
 His soldiers sick and famish'd in their march, 
 For I am sure when he shall see our army 
 He'll drop his heart into the sink of fear, 
 And for achievement offer us his ransom. 60 
 
 Fr. King. Therefore, lord constable, haste on Mont- 
 joy, 
 And let him say to England that we send 
 To know what willing ransom he will give. 
 Prince Dauphin, you shall stay with us in Roan. 
 
 Dau. Not so, I do beseech your majesty. 65 
 
 Fr. King. Be patient, for you shall remain with us. 
 Now forth, lord constable and princes all, 
 And quickly bring us word of England's fall. 68 
 
 Exeun 
 
 Scene Six 
 
 [The English Camp in JPicardy~\ 
 
 Enter Captains, English and Welch, Gower and 
 Fluellen. 
 
 Gow. How now, Captain Fluellen ! come you 
 from the bridge? 
 
 Flu. I assure you, there is very excellent 
 services committed at the pridge. 4 
 
 52 void his rheum: discharge his mucus 54 Roan: Rouen 
 
 60 for: instead of Scene Six S. d. English and Welch; cf. n. 
 
54 The Life of 
 
 Gow. Is the Duke of Exeter safe? 
 
 Flu. The Duke of Exeter is as magnanimous 
 as Agamemnon; and a man that I love and 
 honour with my soul, and my heart, and my 
 duty, and my life, and my living, and my utter- 
 most power: he is not — God be praised and 
 plessed! — any hurt in the world; but keeps then 
 pridge most valiantly, with excellent discipline. 
 There is an aunchient lieutenant there at the 
 pridge, I think, in my very conscience, he is as 
 valiant a man as Mark Antony; and he is a man 
 of no estimation in the world; but I did see him 
 do as gallant service. 17 
 
 Gow. What do you call him ? 
 
 Flu. He is called Aunchient Pistol. 
 
 Gow. I know him not. 20 
 
 Enter Pistol. 
 
 Flu. Here is the man. 
 Pist. Captain, I thee beseech to do me favours: 
 
 The Duke of Exeter doth love thee well. 
 
 Flu. Ay, I praise God; and I have merited 
 some love at his hands. 25 
 
 Pist. Bardolph, a soldier firm and sound of heart, 
 
 And of buxom valour, hath, by cruel fate 
 
 And giddy Fortune's furious fickle wheel, 28 
 
 That goddess blind, 
 
 That stands upon the rolling restless stone, — 
 
 Flu. By your patience, Aunchient Pistol. For- 
 tune is painted plind, with a muffler afore her 
 eyes, to signify to you that Fortune is plind: and 
 she is painted also with a wheel, to signify to 34 
 you, which is the moral of it, that she is turning, 
 
 13 aunchient lieutenant; cf. n. 27 buxom: brisk 
 
Henry the Fifth, III. vi 55 
 
 and inconstant, and mutability, and variation: 
 and her foot, look you, is fixed upon a spherical 
 stone, which rolls, and rolls, and rolls: in good 
 truth, the poet makes a most excellent descrip- 
 tion of it: Fortune is an excellent moral. 40 
 Pist. Fortune is Bardolph's foe, and frowns on 
 him; 
 For he hath stol'n a pax, and hanged must a' be, 
 A damned death ! 
 
 Let gallows gape for dog, let man go free 44 
 
 And let not hemp his wind-pipe suffocate. 
 But Exeter hath given the doom of death 
 For pax of little price. 
 
 Therefore, go speak ; the duke will hear thy voice ; 48 
 And let not Bardolph's vital thread be cut 
 With edge of penny cord and vile reproach: 
 Speak, captain, for his life, and I will thee requite. 
 Flu. Aunchient Pistol, I do partly under- 
 stand your meaning. 53 
 Pist. Why then, rejoice therefore. 
 
 Flu. Certainly, aunchient, it is not a thing to 
 rejoice at; for, if, look you, he were my brother, 
 I would desire the duke to use his good pleasure 
 and put him to execution; for discipline ought 
 to be used. 
 
 Pist. Die and be damn'd; and figo for thy friend- 
 ship ! 60 
 Flu. It is well. 
 Pist. The fig of Spain! Exit. 
 Flu. Very good. 
 
 Gow. Why, this is an arrant counterfeit 
 rascal: I remember him now; a bawd, a cut- 
 purse. 66 
 
 42 pax; cf. n. 60 figo: a fig 62 The fig of Spain; cf. n. 
 
56 The Life of 
 
 Flu. I'll assure you a' uttered as prave 
 words at the pridge as you shall see in a sum- 
 mer's day. But it is very well; what he has 
 spoke to me, that is well, I warrant you, when 
 time is serve. 71 
 
 Gow. Why, 'tis a gull, a fool, a rogue, that 
 now and then goes to the wars to grace himself 
 at his return into London under the form of a 
 soldier. And such fellows are perfect in the 75 
 great commanders' names, and they will learn 
 you by rote where services were done; at such 
 and such a sconce, at such a breach, at such a 
 convoy; who came off bravely, who was shot, 
 who disgraced, what terms the enemy stood on ; 80 
 and this they con perfectly in the phrase of war, 
 which they trick up with new-tuned oaths: and 
 what a beard of the general's cut and a horrid 
 suit of the camp will do among foaming bottles 84 
 and ale-washed wits, is wonderful to be thought 
 on. But you must learn to know such slanders 
 of the age, or else you may be marvellously 
 mistook. 88 
 
 Flu. I tell you what, Captain Gower; I do 
 perceive, he is not the man that he would gladly 
 make show to the world he is : if I find a hole in 
 his coat I will tell him my mind. [Drum heard.'] 
 Hark you, the king is coming; and I must 
 speak with him from the pridge. 
 
 Drum and Colours. Enter the King, [Gloucester,] 
 and his poor Soldiers. 
 
 Flu. God pless your majesty! 
 
 72 gull: cheat 78 sconce: small fort 
 
 80 stood on: insisted on 94 from: with news from 
 
Henry the Fifth, III. vi 57 
 
 K. Hen. How now, Fluellen ! cam'st thou from the 
 bridge ? 96 
 
 Flu. Ay, so please your majesty. The Duke 
 of Exeter hath very gallantly maintained the 
 pridge : the French is gone off, look you, and there 
 is gallant and most prave passages. Marry, th' 100 
 athversary was have possession of the pridge, 
 but he is enforced to retire, and the Duke of 
 Exeter is master of the pridge. I can tell your 
 majesty the duke is a prave man. 104 
 
 K. Hen. What men have you lost, Fluellen ? 
 Flu. The perdition of th' athversary hath been 
 very great, reasonable great: marry, for my 
 part, I think the duke hath lost never a man but 
 one that is like to be executed for robbing a 109 
 church; one Bardolph, if your majesty know the 
 man: his face is all bubukles, and whelks, and 
 knobs, and flames o' fire; and his lips blows at 
 his nose, and it is like a coal of fire, sometimes 
 plue and sometimes red; but his nose is exe- 
 cuted, and his fire's out. 115 
 
 K. Hen. We would have all such offenders so 
 cut off: and we give express charge that in our 
 marches through the country there be nothing 
 compelled from the villages, nothing taken but 
 paid for, none of the French upbraided or 
 abused in disdainful language; for when lenity 
 and cruelty play for a kingdom, the gentler 
 gamester is the soonest winner. 
 
 Tucket. Enter Montjoy. 
 
 Mont. You know me by my habit. 124 
 
 100 passages: deeds 106 perdition: losses 
 
 111 bubukles: carbuncles whelks: boils 
 
 123 S. d. Tucket: trumpet signal 124 habit: herald's coat 
 
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 K. Hen. Well then I know thee : what shall I 
 know of thee? 
 
 Mont. My master's mind. 
 
 K. Hen. Unfold it. 127 
 
 Mont. Thus says my king: Say thou to Harry 
 of England: Though we seemed dead, we did but 
 sleep: advantage is a better soldier than rash- 
 ness. Tell him, we could have rebuked him at 
 Harfleur, but that we thought not good to bruise 
 an injury till it were full ripe: now we speak 133 
 upon our cue, and our voice is imperial: England 
 shall repent his folly, see his weakness, and ad- 
 mire our sufferance. Bid him therefore consider 
 of his ransom; which must proportion the losses 
 we have borne, the subjects we have lost, the 
 disgrace we have digested ; which, in weight to 139 
 re-answer, his pettiness would bow under. For 
 our losses, his exchequer is too poor; for the 
 effusion of our blood, the muster of his kingdom 
 too faint a number; and for our disgrace, his 
 own person, kneeling at our feet, but a weak and 
 worthless satisfaction. To this add defiance: and 
 tell him, for conclusion, he hath betrayed his 
 followers, whose condemnation is pronounced. 
 So far my king and master, so much my office. 
 K. Hen. What is thy name ? I know thy qual- 
 ity. 149 
 Mont. Montjoy. 
 
 K. Hen. Thou dost thy office fairly. Turn thee 
 back, 
 And tell thy king I do not seek him now, 152 
 
 But could be willing to march on to Calais 
 
 125 of: from 134 upon our cue: mi proper time 
 
 140 re-answer: at one for 149 quality: profession 
 
Henry the Fifth, III. vi 59 
 
 Without impeachment; for, to say the sooth, — 
 
 Though 'tis no wisdom to confess so much 
 
 Unto an enemy of craft and vantage, — 156 
 
 My people are with sickness much enfeebled, 
 
 My numbers lessen'd, and those few I have 
 
 Almost no better than so many French: 
 
 Who, when they were in health, I tell thee, herald, 160 
 
 I thought upon one pair of English legs 
 
 Did march three Frenchmen. Yet, forgive me, God, 
 
 That I do brag thus ! this j^our air of France 
 
 Hath blown that vice in me; I must repent. 164 
 
 Go therefore, tell thy master here I am: 
 
 My ransom is this frail and worthless trunk, 
 
 My army but a weak and sickly guard; 
 
 Yet, God before, tell him we will come on, 168 
 
 Though France himself and such another neighbour 
 
 Stand in our way. There's for thy labour, Montjoy. 
 
 Go, bid thy master well advise himself: 
 
 If we may pass, we will; if we be hinder' d, 172 
 
 We shall your tawny ground with your red blood 
 
 Discolour: and so, Montjoy, fare you well. 
 
 The sum of all our answer is but this: 
 
 We would not seek a battle as we are; 176 
 
 Nor, as we are, we say we will not shun it: 
 
 So tell your master. 
 
 Mont. I shall deliver so. Thanks to your highness. 
 
 [Exit] 
 Glo. I hope they will not come upon us now. 180 
 K. Hen. We are in God's hand, brother, not in 
 theirs. 
 March to the bridge; it now draws toward night: 
 
 154 impeachment: hindrance _ sooth: truth 
 
 156 of vantage: favored by circumstances 
 
 164 blown: propagated 179 deliver: report 
 
60 The Life of 
 
 Beyond the river we'll encamp ourselves, 
 And on to-morrow bid them march away. 184 
 
 Exeunt. 
 
 Scene Seven 
 
 [The French Camp, near Agincourt] 
 
 Enter the Constable of France, the Lord Rambures, 
 [the Duke of] Orleans, [the] Dauphin, with 
 Others. 
 
 Con. Tut! I have the best armour of the 
 world. Would it were day! 
 
 Orl. You have an excellent armour; but let 
 my horse have his due. 4 
 
 Con. It is the best horse of Europe. 
 
 Orl. Will it never be morning? 
 
 Dau. My Lord of Orleans, and my lord high 
 constable, you talk of horse and armour — 8 
 
 Orl. You are as well provided of both as any 
 prince in the world. 
 
 Dau. What a long night is this ! I will not 
 change my horse with any that treads but on 12 
 four pasterns. Qa, ha! He bounds from the 
 earth as if his entrails were hairs: le cheval 
 volant, the Pegasus, chez les narines de feu ! 
 When I bestride him, I soar, I am a hawk: he 16 
 trots the air; the earth sings when he touches 
 it; the basest horn of his hoof is more musical 
 than the pipe of Hermes. 
 
 Orl. He's of the colour of the nutmeg. 20 
 
 Dau. And of the heat of the ginger. It is a 
 beast for Perseus: he is pure air and fire; and 
 the dull elements of earth and water never 
 
 14 as if . . . hairs: i.e., as if he were a tennis ball; cf. n. 
 
 15 chez: i.e., with 19 pipe of Hermes; cf. n. 
 
Henry the Fifth, III. vii 61 
 
 appear in him but only in patient stillness while 24 
 his rider mounts him: he is indeed a horse; and 
 all other jades you may call beasts. 
 
 Con. Indeed, my lord, it is a most absolute 
 and excellent horse. 28 
 
 Dau. It is the prince of palfreys; his neigh 
 is like the bidding of a monarch and his counte- 
 nance enforces homage. 
 
 Orl. No more, cousin. 32 
 
 Dau. Nay, the man hath no wit that cannot, 
 from the rising of the lark to the lodging of the 
 lamb, vary deserved praise on my palfrey: it is 
 a theme as fluent as the sea ; turn the sands into 36 
 eloquent tongues, and my horse is argument for 
 them all. 'Tis a subject for a sovereign to rea- 
 son on, and for a sovereign's sovereign to ride 
 on ; and for the world — familiar to us, and 40 
 unknown — to lay apart their particular func- 
 tions and wonder at him. I once writ a son- 
 net in his praise and began thus: 'Wonder of 
 nature !' — 44 
 
 Orl. I have heard a sonnet begin so to one's 
 mistress. 
 
 Dau. Then did they imitate that which I 
 composed to my courser; for my horse is my 
 mistress. 49 
 
 Orl. Your mistress bears well. 
 
 Dau. Me well; which is the prescript praise 
 and perfection of a good and particular mis- 
 tress. 53 
 
 Con. Nay, for methought yesterday your mis- 
 tress shrewdly shook your back. 
 
 27 absolute: perfect 34 lodging: lying down 
 
 37 argument: theme 51 prescript: prescribed 
 
 55 shrewdly: viciously 
 
62 The Life of 
 
 Dau. So perhaps did yours. 56 
 
 Con. Mine was not bridled. 
 
 Dau. O! then belike she was old and gentle; 
 and you rode, like a kern of Ireland, your French 
 hose off and in your straight strossers. 60 
 
 Con. You have good judgment in horseman- 
 ship. 
 
 Dau. Be warned by me, then: they that ride 
 so, and ride not warily, fall into foul bogs. I 
 had rather have my horse to my mistress. 65 
 
 Con. I had as lief have my mistress a jade. 
 
 Dau. I tell thee, constable, my mistress wears 
 his own hair. 68 
 
 Con. I could make as true a boast as that if I 
 had a sow to my mistress. 
 
 Dau. 'Le chien est retourne a son propre 
 vomissement, et la truie lavee au bourbier': thou 
 makest use of any thing. 73 
 
 Con. Yet do I not use my horse for my mis- 
 tress: or any such proverb so little kin to the 
 purpose. 76 
 
 Ram. My lord constable, the armour that I 
 saw in your tent to-night, are those stars or 
 suns upon it? 
 
 Con. Stars, my lord. 80 
 
 Dau. Some of them will fall to-morrow, I 
 hope. 
 
 Con. And yet my sky shall not want. 
 
 Dau. That may be, for you bear a many 
 superfluously, and 'twere more honour some 
 were away. 86 
 
 Con. Even as your horse bears your praises; 
 
 59 kern: light-armed Irish soldier 59, 60 French hose: wide breeches 
 
 60 straight strossers: tight trousers 65 to: as 
 71, 72 Cf. n. 
 
Henry the Fifth, III. vii 63 
 
 who would trot as well were some of your brags 
 dismounted. 89 
 
 Dau. Would I were able to load him with his 
 desert! Will it never be day? I will trot to- 
 morrow a mile, and my way shall be paved with 
 English faces. 93 
 
 Con. I will not say so for fear I should be 
 faced out of my way. But I would it were 
 morning, for I would fain be about the ears of 
 the English. 97 
 
 Ram. Who will go to hazard with me for 
 twenty prisoners? 
 
 Con. You must first go yourself to hazard, 
 ere you have them. 101 
 
 Dau. 'Tis midnight: I'll go arm myself. Exit. 
 
 Orl. The Dauphin longs for morning. 
 
 Ram. He longs to eat the English. 104 
 
 Con. I think he will eat all he kills. 
 
 Orl. By the white hand of my lady, he's a 
 gallant prince. 
 
 Con. Swear by her foot, that she may tread 
 out the oath. 109 
 
 Orl. He is simply the most active gentleman 
 of France. 
 
 Con. Doing is activity, and he will still be 
 doing. 113 
 
 Orl. He never did harm, that I heard of. 
 
 Con. Nor will do none to-morrow: he will 
 keep that good name still. 116 
 
 Orl. I know him to be valiant. 
 
 Con. I was told that by one that knows him 
 better than you. 
 
 Orl. What's he? 120 
 
 95 faced out of my way: outfaced (put to shame} 
 98 go to hazard: throw at dice; cf. n. 
 
64 The Life of 
 
 Con. Marry, he told me so himself; and he 
 said he cared not who knew it. 
 
 Orl. He needs not; it is no hidden virtue 
 in him. i 124 
 
 Con. By my faith, sir, but it is; never any- 
 body saw it but his lackey: 'tis a hooded valour; 
 and when it appears, it will bate. 
 
 Orl. 'Ill will never said well.' 128 
 
 Con. I will cap that proverb with 'There is 
 flattery in friendship.' 
 
 Orl. And I will take up that with 'Give the 
 devil his due.' 132 
 
 Con. Well placed: there stands your friend 
 for the devil: have at the very eye of that 
 proverb, with 'A pox of the devil.' 
 
 Orl. You are the better at proverbs, by how 
 much 'A fool's bolt is soon shot.' 137 
 
 Con. You have shot over. 
 
 Orl. 'Tis not the first time you were overshot. 
 
 Enter a Messenger. 
 
 Mess. My lord high constable, the English lie 
 within fifteen hundred paces of your tents. 141 
 
 Con. Who hath measured the ground? 
 
 Mess. The Lord Grandpre. 
 
 Con. A valiant and most expert gentleman. 
 Would it were day ! Alas ! poor Harry of Eng- 
 land, he longs not for the dawning as we do. 146 
 
 Orl. What a wretched and peevish fellow is 
 this King of England, to mope with his fat- 
 brained followers so far out of his knowledge! 
 
 126 'tis a hooded valour; cf. n. 
 
 139 overshot: beaten at shooting (with a pun on 'drunk') 
 
 147 peevish: foolish 149 out . . . knowledge: beyond his depth 
 
Henry the Fifth, III. vii 65 
 
 Con. If the English had any apprehension 
 they would run away. 151 
 
 Orl. That they lack; for if their heads had 
 any intellectual armour they could never wear 
 such heavy head-pieces. 
 
 Ram. That island of England breeds very 
 valiant creatures: their mastiffs are of un- 
 matchable courage. 157 
 
 Orl. Foolish curs ! that run winking into the 
 mouth of a Russian bear and have their heads 
 crushed like rotten apples. You may as well say 
 that's a valiant flea that dare eat his breakfast 
 on the lip of a lion. 162 
 
 Con. Just, just; and the men do sympathize 
 with the mastiffs in robustious and rough com- 
 ing on, leaving their wits with their wives: and 
 then give them great meals of beef and iron 
 and steel, they will eat like wolves and fight 
 like devils. 168 
 
 Orl. Ay, but these English are shrewdly out 
 of beef. 
 
 Con. Then shall we find to-morrow they have 
 only stomachs to eat and none to fight. Now is 
 it time to arm; come, shall we about it? 173 
 
 Orl. It is now two o'clock: but, let me see, by ten 
 We shall have each a hundred Englishmen. Exeunt. 
 
 150 apprehension: intelligence 163 sympathize with: resemble 
 
 164 robustious: sturdy 
 
66 The Life of 
 
 ACT FOURTH 
 
 Chorus. 
 Now entertain conjecture of a time 
 When creeping murmur and the poring dark 
 Fills the wide vessel of the universe. 
 From camp to camp, through the foul womb of 
 night, 4 
 
 The hum of either army stilly sounds, 
 That the fix'd sentinels almost receive 
 The secret whispers of each other's watch: 
 Fire answers fire, and through their paly flames 8 
 Each battle sees the other's umber'd face: 
 Steed threatens steed, in high and boastful neighs 
 Piercing the night's dull ear; and from the tents 
 The armourers, accomplishing the knights, 12 
 
 With busy hammers closing rivets up, 
 Give dreadful note of preparation. 
 The country cocks do crow, the clocks do toll, 
 And the third hour of drowsy morning name. 16 
 
 Proud of their numbers, and secure in soul, 
 The confident and over-lusty French 
 Do the low-rated English play at dice; 
 And chide the cripple tardy-gaited night 20 
 
 Who, like a foul and ugly witch, doth limp 
 So tediously away. The poor condemned English, 
 Like sacrifices, by their watchful fires 
 Sit patiently, and inly ruminate 24 
 
 The morning's danger, and their gesture sad 
 Investing lank-lean cheeks and war-worn coats 
 Presenteth them unto the gazing moon 
 So many horrid ghosts. O now, who will behold 28 
 
 2 poring: dim-sighted 5 stilly : softly 
 
 9 battle: army umber'd: dusky 12 accomplishing: equipping 
 
 18 over-lusty": overconfident 19 play : play for 
 
 25 gesture: bearing 26 Investing: accompanying 
 
Henry the Fifth, IV. i 67 
 
 The royal captain of this ruin'd band 
 
 Walking from watch to watch., from tent to tent, 
 
 Let him cry 'Praise and glory on his head!' 
 
 For forth he goes and visits all his host, 32 
 
 Bids them good morrow with a modest smile, 
 
 And calls them brothers, friends, and countrymen. 
 
 Upon his royal face there is no note 
 
 How dread an army hath enrounded him; 36 
 
 Nor doth he dedicate one jot of colour 
 
 Unto the weary and all-watched night: 
 
 But freshly looks and overbears attaint 
 
 With cheerful semblance and sweet majesty; 40 
 
 That every wretch, pining and pale before, 
 
 Beholding him, plucks comfort from his looks. 
 
 A largess universal, like the sun, 
 
 His liberal eye doth give to every one, 44 
 
 Thawing cold fear, that mean and gentle all 
 
 Behold, as may unworthiness define, 
 
 A little touch of Harry in the night. 
 
 And so our scene must to the battle fly ; 48 
 
 Where, — O for pity, — we shall much disgrace, 
 
 With four or five most vile and ragged foils, 
 
 Right ill dispos'd in brawl ridiculous, 
 
 The name of Agincourt. Yet sit and see, 52 
 
 Minding true things by what their mockeries be. 
 
 Exit. 
 
 Scene One 
 [The English Camp at Agincourf] 
 Enter the King, Bedford, and Gloucester. 
 K. Hen. Gloucester, 'tis true that we are in great 
 danger ; 
 
 36 enrounded: surrounded 39 overbears attaint: subdues anxiety 
 
 46 as . . . define: so far as they are able to apprehend 
 53 Minding: imagining 
 
68 The Life of 
 
 The greater therefore should our courage be. 
 
 Good morrow, brother Bedford. God Almighty ! 
 
 There is some soul of goodness in things evil, 4 
 
 Would men observingly distil it out; 
 
 For our bad neighbour makes us early stirrers, 
 
 Which is both healthful, and good husbandry: 
 
 Besides, they are our outward consciences, 8 
 
 And preachers to us all ; admonishing 
 
 That we should dress us fairly for our end. 
 
 Thus may we gather honey from the weed, 
 
 And make a moral of the devil himself. 12 
 
 Enter Erpingham. 
 
 Good morrow, old Sir Thomas Erpingham: 
 A good soft pillow for that good white head 
 Were better than a churlish turf of France. 
 
 Erp. Not so, my liege: this lodging likes me 
 
 better, 16 
 
 Since I may say, 'Now lie I like a king.' 
 
 K. Hen. 'Tis good for men to love their present 
 
 pains 
 Upon example; so the spirit is eas'd: 
 And when the mind is quicken'd, out of doubt, 20 
 
 The organs, though defunct and dead before, 
 Break up their drowsy grave, and newly move 
 With casted slough and fresh legerity. 
 Lend me thy cloak, Sir Thomas. Brothers both, 
 Commend me to the princes in our camp; 25 
 
 Do my good morrow to them; and anon 
 Desire them all to my pavilion. 
 
 Glo. We shall, my liege. 28 
 
 10 dress us: prepare ourselves 
 
 19 Upon example: by virtue of the example set by another 
 
 20 out of doubt: certainly 
 
 23 casted slough: cast-off skin {of a snake) legerity: alacrity 
 
 27 Desire: summon 
 
Henry the Fifth, IV. i 69 
 
 Erp. Shall I attend your Grace? 
 K. Hen. No, my good knight; 
 
 Go with my brothers to my lords of England: 
 I and my bosom must debate awhile, 
 And then I would no other company. 32 
 
 Erp. The Lord in heaven bless thee, noble Harry ! 
 Exeunt [all but the Xing'], 
 K. Hen. God-a-mercy, old heart ! thou speak'st 
 cheerfully. 
 
 Enter Pistol. 
 
 Pist. Che vous la? 
 
 K. Hen. A friend. 36 
 
 Pist. Discuss unto me; art thou officer? 
 Or art thou base, common and popular? 
 
 K. Hen. I am a gentleman of a company. 
 
 Pist. Trail'st thou the puissant pike? 40 
 
 K. Hen. Even so. What are you ? 
 
 Pist. As good a gentleman as the emperor. 
 
 K. Hen. Then you are a better than the king. 
 
 Pist. The king's a bawcock, and a heart of gold, 44 
 A lad of life, an imp of fame: 
 Of parents good, of fist most valiant: 
 I kiss his dirty shoe, and from heart-string 
 I love the lovely bully. What's thy name? 48 
 
 K. Hen. Harry le Roy. 
 
 Pist. Le Roy! a Cornish name: art thou of Cornish 
 crew ? 
 
 K. Hen. No, I am a Welshman. 
 
 Pist. Know'st thou Fluellen? 52 
 
 K.Hen. Yes. 
 
 Pist. Tell him, I'll knock his leek about his pate 
 Upon Saint Davy's day. 
 
 35 Che vous la: i.e., Quiva la 38 popular : plebeian 
 
 45 imp: youngling 48 bully : good fellow 
 
 55 Saint Davy's day: March i; cf. n. 
 
70 The Life of 
 
 K. Hen. Do not you wear your dagger in your 
 cap that day, lest he knock that about yours. 57 
 Pist. Art thou his friend? 
 K. Hen. And his kinsman too. 
 
 Pist. The figo for thee then! 60 
 
 K. Hen. I thank you. God be with you ! 
 Pist. My name is Pistol called. Exit. 
 
 K. Hen. It sorts well with your fierceness. 
 
 Enter Fluellen and Gower [severally]. 
 
 Gow. Captain Fluellen ! 64 
 
 Flu. So! in the name of Cheshu Christ, speak 
 lower. It is the greatest admiration in the 
 universal world, when the true and auncient 
 prerogatifes and laws of the wars is not kept. 
 If you would take the pains but to examine the 
 wars of Pompey the Great, you shall find, I 
 warrant you, that there is no tiddle-taddle nor 
 pibble-pabble in Pompey's camp; I warrant 
 you, you shall find the ceremonies of the wars, 
 and the cares of it, and the forms of it, and the 
 sobriety of it, and the modesty of it, to be other- 
 wise. 76 
 
 Gow. Why, the enemy is loud; you hear 
 him all night. 
 
 Flu. If the enemy is an ass and a fool and a 
 prating coxcomb, is it meet, think you, that we 
 should also, look you, be an ass and a fool and a 
 prating coxcomb, in your own conscience now? 
 Gow. I will speak lower. 83 
 
 Flu. I pray you and peseech you that you 
 will. Exit [with Gower']. 
 
 K. Hen. Though it appear a little out of fashion, 
 There is much care and valour in this Welshman. 
 
 59 kinsman: brother Welshman (Henry was born at Monmouth) 
 
Henry the Fifth, IV. i 7 1 
 
 Enter three soldiers: John Bates, Alexander Court, 
 and Michael Williams. 
 
 Court. Brother John Bates, is not that the 
 morning which breaks yonder? 89 
 
 Bates. I think it be; but we have no great 
 cause to desire the approach of day. 
 
 Will. We see yonder the beginning of the 
 day, but I think we shall never see the end of 
 it. Who goes there? 
 
 K. Hen. A friend. 
 
 Will. Under what captain serve you? 96 
 
 K. Hen. Under Sir Thomas Erpingham. 
 
 Will. A good old commander and a most 
 kind gentleman: I pray you, what thinks he of 
 our estate? 100 
 
 K. Hen. Even as men wrecked upon a sand, 
 that look to be washed off the next tide. 
 
 Bates. He hath not told his thought to the 
 king ? 104 
 
 K. Hen. No ; nor it is not meet he should. 
 For, though I speak it to you, I think the king 
 is but a man, as I am: the violet smells to him 
 as it doth to me; the element shows to him as 
 it doth to me; all his senses have but human 
 conditions: his ceremonies laid by, in his naked- 
 ness he appears but a man ; and though his ill 
 affections are higher mounted than ours, yet 
 when they stoop, they stoop with the like wing. 
 Therefore when he sees reason of fears, as we do, 
 his fears, out of doubt, be of the same relish as 
 
 100 estate: position 101 sand: sand-bank 
 
 108 element: sky shows: appears 
 
 110 ceremonies: marks of office 
 
 113 stoop: term of falconry, used of the hazvk descending on its prey 
 
 115 relish: flavor 
 
72 The Life of 
 
 ours are: yet, in reason, no man should possess 
 him with any appearance of fear, lest he, by 
 showing it, should dishearten his army. 118 
 
 Bates. He may show what outward courage 
 he will, but I believe, as cold a night as 'tis, he 
 could wish himself in Thames up to the neck, 
 and so I would he were, and I by him, at all 
 adventures, so we were quit here. 123 
 
 K. lien. By my troth, I will speak my con- 
 science of the king: I think he would not wish 
 himself anywhere but where he is. 
 
 Bates. Then I would he were here alone; so 
 should he be sure to be ransomed, and a many 
 poor men's lives saved. 129 
 
 K. Hen. I dare say you love him not so ill 
 to wish him here alone, howsoever you speak 
 this to feel other men's minds. Methinks I 
 could not die anywhere so contented as in the 
 king's company, his cause being just and his 
 quarrel honourable. 
 
 Will. That's more than we know. 136 
 
 Bates. Ay, or more than we should seek after; 
 for we know enough if we know we are the king's 
 subjects. If his cause be wrong, our obedience 
 to the king wipes the crime of it out of us. 140 
 
 Will. But if the cause be not good, the king 
 himself hath a heavy reckoning to make; when 
 all those legs and arms and heads, chopped off 
 in a battle, shall join together at the latter day, 
 and cry all, 'We died at such a place'; some 
 swearing, some crying for a surgeon, some upon 
 their wives left poor behind them, some upon 
 the debts they owe, some upon their children 
 
 116 possess: infect 124 conscience: private opinion 
 
Henry the Fifth, IV. i 73 
 
 rawly left. I am afeard there are few die well 149 
 that die in a battle; for how can they charitably 
 dispose of anything when blood is their argu- 
 ment? Now, if these men do not die well, it 
 will be a black matter for the king that led them 
 to it, who to disobey were against all propor- 
 tion of subjection. 155 
 
 K. Hen. So, if a son that is by his father sent 
 about merchandise do sinfully miscarry upon 
 the sea, the imputation of his wickedness, by 
 your rule, should be imposed upon his father 
 that sent him: or if a servant, under his master's 
 command transporting a sum of money, be as- 
 sailed by robbers and die in many irreconciled 162 
 iniquities, you may call the business of the master 
 the author of the servant's damnation. But this 
 is not so: the king is not bound to answer the 
 particular endings of his soldiers, the father of 
 his son, nor the master of his servant; for they 
 purpose not their death when they purpose their 
 services. Besides, there is no king, be his cause 
 never so spotless, if it come to the arbitrement 170 
 of swords, can try it out with all unspotted sol- 
 diers. Some, peradventure, have on them the 
 guilt of premeditated and contrived murder; 
 some, of beguiling virgins with the broken seals 
 of perjury; some, making the wars their bul- 
 wark, that have before gored the gentle bosom 
 of peace with pillage and robbery. Now, if these 
 men have defeated the law and outrun native 178 
 punishment, though they can outstrip men, they 
 
 149 rawly, without due provision 151 argument: business 
 
 154, 155 all . . . subjection: all that is reasonably demanded of a 
 
 subject 157 miscarry: perish 
 
 162 irreconciled: unatoned for 170 arbitrement: decision 
 
 173 contrived: plotted 178 native: in their home country 
 
74 The Life of 
 
 have no wings to fly from God: war is his beadle, 
 war is his vengeance; so that here men are 
 punished for before-breach of the king's laws in 
 now the king's quarrel: where they feared the 
 death they have borne life away, and where they 
 would be safe they perish. Then, if they die 185 
 unprovided, no more is the king guilty of their 
 damnation than he was before guilty of those 
 impieties for the which they are now visited. 
 Every subject's duty is the king's; but every 
 subject's soul is his own. Therefore should every 
 soldier in the wars do as every sick man in his 
 bed, wash every mote out of his conscience; and 
 dying so, death is to him advantage ; or not 193 
 dying, the time was blessedly lost wherein such 
 preparation was gained: and in him that es- 
 capes, it were not sin to think, that making God 
 so free an offer, he let him outlive that day to 
 see his greatness, and to teach others how they 
 should prepare. 199 
 
 Will. 'Tis certain, every man that dies ill, the 
 ill upon his own head: the king is not to answer 
 it. 
 
 Bates. I do not desire he should answer for 
 me; and yet I determine to fight lustily for him. 
 
 K. Hen. I myself heard the king say he would 
 not be ransomed. 200 
 
 Will. Ay, he said so, to make us fight cheer- 
 fully; but when our throats are cut he may be 
 ransomed, and we ne'er the wiser. 
 
 K. Hen. If I live to see it, I will never trust 
 his word after. 211 
 
 Will. You pay him then. That's a perilous 
 
 180 beadle: minor police officer 
 
 186 unprovided: unprepared 212 pay: punish 
 
Henry the Fifth, IV. i 75 
 
 shot out of an elder-gun, that a poor and a 
 private displeasure can do against a monarch. 
 You may as well go about to turn the sun to 
 ice with fanning in his face with a peacock's 
 feather. You'll never trust his word after! 
 come, 'tis a foolish saying. 218 
 
 K. Hen. Your reproof is something too round ; 
 I should be angry with you if the time were con- 
 venient. 221 
 
 Will. Let it be a quarrel between us, if you 
 live. 
 
 K. Hen. I embrace it. 224 
 
 Will. How shall I know thee again? 
 
 K. Hen. Give me any gage of thine, and I 
 will wear it in my bonnet: then, if ever thou 
 darest acknowledge it, I will make it my quarrel. 
 
 Will. Here's my glove: give me another of 
 thine. 230 
 
 K.Hen. There. 
 
 Will. This will I also wear in my cap: if ever 
 thou come to me and say after to-morrow, 'This 
 is my glove,' by this hand I will take thee a box 
 on the ear. 
 
 K. Hen. If ever I live to see it, I will challenge 
 
 it. 237 
 
 Will. Thou darest as well be hanged. 
 
 K. Hen. Well, I will do it, though I take thee 
 in the king's company. 240 
 
 Will. Keep thy word: fare thee well. 
 
 Bates. Be friends, you English fools, be 
 friends: we have French quarrels enow, if you 
 could tell how to reckon. 244 
 
 213 elder-gun : popgun 215 go about: attempt 
 
 219 round: plain-spoken 226 gage: pledge 
 
76 The Life of 
 
 K. Hen. Indeed, the French may lay twenty 
 French crowns to one, they will beat us; for 
 they bear them on their shoulders: but it is no 
 English treason to cut French crowns, and to- 
 morrow the king himself will be a clipper. 249 
 
 [Exeunt Soldiers.] 
 Upon the king! let us our lives, our souls, 
 Our debts, our careful wives, 
 
 Our children, and our sins lay on the king ! 252 
 
 We must bear all. O hard condition ! 
 Twin-born with greatness, subject to the breath 
 Of every fool, whose sense no more can feel 
 But his own wringing. What infinite heart's ease 
 Must kings neglect that private men enjoy! 257 
 
 And what have kings that privates have not too, 
 Save ceremony, save general ceremony? 
 And what art thou, thou idol ceremony? 260 
 
 What kind of god art thou, that suffer'st more 
 Of mortal griefs than do thy worshippers? 
 What are thy rents? what are thy comings-in? 
 O ceremony ! show me but thy worth : 264 
 
 What is thy soul of adoration? 
 Art thou aught else but place, degree, and form, 
 Creating awe and fear in other men? 
 Wherein thou art less happy, being fear'd, 268 
 
 Than they in fearing. 
 
 What drink'st thou oft, instead of homage sweet, 
 But poison'd flattery ? O ! be sick, great greatness, 
 And bid thy ceremony give thee cure. 272 
 
 Think'st thou the fiery fever will go out 
 With titles blown from adulation? 
 Will it give place to flexure and low-bending? 
 
 246 French crowns; cf. n. 251 careful: full of care 
 
 256 wringing: suffering 
 
 265 What is the essential reason men adore thee? 
 
Henry the Fifth, IV. i 77 
 
 Canst thou, when thou command'st the beggar's 
 knee, 276 
 
 Command the health of it? No, thou proud dream, 
 That play'st so subtly with a king's repose ; 
 I am a king that find thee ; and I know 
 'Tis not the balm, the sceptre and the ball, 280 
 
 The sword, the mace, the crown imperial, 
 The intertissued robe of gold and pearl, 
 The farced title running 'fore the king, 
 The throne he sits on, nor the tide of pomp 284 
 
 That beats upon the high shore of this world, 
 No, not all these, thrice-gorgeous ceremony, 
 Not all these, laid in bed majestical, 
 Can sleep so soundly as the wretched slave, 288 
 
 Who with a body fill'd and vacant mind 
 Gets him to rest, cramm'd with distressful bread; 
 Never sees horrid night, the child of hell, 
 But, like a lackey, from the rise to set 292 
 
 Sweats in the eye of Phoebus, and all night 
 Sleeps in Elysium; next day after dawn, 
 Doth rise and help Hyperion to his horse, 
 And follows so the ever-running year 296 
 
 With profitable labour to his grave : 
 And, but for ceremony, such a wretch, 
 Winding up days with toil and nights with sleep, 
 Had the fore-hand and vantage of a king. 300 
 
 The slave, a member of the country's peace, 
 Enjoys it; but in gross brain little wots 
 What watch the king keeps to maintain the peace, 
 Whose hours the peasant best advantages. 304 
 
 280 balm: anointing oil ball: carried by a king as a sign of sover- 
 
 eignty 282 intertissued: interwoven 
 
 283 farced: stuffed out with pompous phrases; cf. n. 
 290 distressful: earned by painful labor 
 295 help . . . horse: is up before the sun 
 
 300 Had: would have fore-hand: upper hand 301 member: sharer 
 304 the peasant best advantages: most benefit the peasant 
 
78 The Life of 
 
 Enter Erpingham. 
 
 Erp. My lord, your nobles, jealous of your ab- 
 sence, 
 Seek through your camp to find you. 
 
 K. Hen. Good old knight, 
 
 Collect them all together at my tent: 
 I'll be before thee. 
 
 Erp. I shall do 't, my lord. Exit. 
 
 K. Hen. O God of battles ! steel my soldiers' 
 hearts ; 309 
 
 Possess them not with fear ; take from them now 
 The sense of reckoning, if the opposed numbers 
 Pluck their hearts from them. Not to-day, O 
 Lord, 312 
 
 O, not to-day, think not upon the fault 
 My father made in compassing the crown ! 
 I Richard's body have interr'd anew, 
 And on it have bestow'd more contrite tears 316 
 
 Than from it issu'd forced drops of blood. 
 Five hundred poor I have in yearly pay, 
 Who twice a day their wither'd hands hold up 
 Toward heaven, to pardon blood ; and I have built 320 
 Two chantries, where the sad and solemn priests 
 Sing still for Richard's soul. More will I do ; 
 Though all that I can do is nothing worth, 
 Since that my penitence comes after all, 324 
 
 Imploring pardon. 
 
 Enter Gloucester. 
 
 Glo. My liege! 
 
 K. Hen. My brother Gloucester's voice ! Ay ; 
 
 312 hearts: courage 314 compassing: obtaining 
 
 321 chantries; cf. n. 323-325 Cf. n. 
 
Henry the Fifth, IV. it 79 
 
 I know thy errand, I will go with thee : 328 
 
 The day, my friends, and all things stay for me. 
 
 Exeunt. 
 
 Scene Two 
 
 [The French Camp"] 
 
 Enter the Dauphin, Orleans, Rambures, and [Others], 
 
 Orl. The sun doth gild our armour: up, my lords! 
 Dau. Montez a cheval ! My horse ! varlet ! lackey ! 
 
 ha! 
 Orl. O brave spirit! 
 
 Dau. Via! les eaux et la terre! 4 
 
 Orl. Rien puis ? Fair et le feu. 
 Dau. Ciel ! cousin Orleans. 
 
 Enter Constable. 
 
 Now, my lord constable ! 
 
 Con. Hark how our steeds for present service 
 neigh ! 8 
 
 Dau. Mount them, and make incision in their hides, 
 That their hot blood may spin in English eyes, 
 And dout them with superfluous courage : ha ! 
 
 Ram. What! will you have them weep our horses' 
 blood? 12 
 
 How shall we then behold their natural tears? 
 
 Enter Messenger. 
 
 Mess. The English are embattl'd, you French peers. 
 
 Con. To horse, you gallant princes ! straight to 
 horse ! 
 Do but behold yon poor and starved band, 16 
 
 And your fair show shall suck away their souls, 
 Leaving them but the shales and husks of men. 
 
 4 Via: away 11 dout: put out 18 shales: shells 
 
so The Life of 
 
 There is not work enough for all our hands ; 
 
 Scarce blood enough in all their sickly veins 20 
 
 To give each naked curtal-axe a stain, 
 
 That our French gallants shall to-day draw out, 
 
 And sheathe for lack of sport: let us but blow on 
 
 them, 
 The vapour of our valour will o'erturn them. 24 
 
 'Tis positive 'gainst all exceptions, lords, 
 That our superfluous lackeys and our peasants, 
 Who in unnecessary action swarm 
 About our squares of battle, were enow 28 
 
 To purge this field of such a hilding foe, 
 Though we upon this mountain's basis by 
 Took stand for idle speculation: 
 But that our honours must not. What's to say ? 
 A very little little let us do, 33 
 
 And all is done. Then let the trumpets sound 
 The tucket sonance and the note to mount: 
 For our approach shall so much dare the field, 
 That England shall couch down in fear and yield. 
 
 Enter Grandpre. 
 
 Grand. Why do you stay so long, my lords of 
 France ? 
 Yon island carrions desperate of their bones, 
 Ill-f avour'dly become the morning field : 40 
 
 Their ragged curtains poorly are let loose, 
 And our air shakes them passing scornfully: 
 Big Mars seems bankrupt in their beggar'd host, 
 And faintly through a rusty beaver peeps: 44 
 
 The horsemen sit like fixed candlesticks, 
 With torch-staves in their hand; and their poor jades 
 
 21 curtal-axe: long curved sword 29 hilding: base 
 
 31 speculation: looking-on 35 tucket sonance: preliminary notes 
 
 36 dare; cf. n. 37 couch: crouch 
 
 41 curtains: banners 44 beaver: visor of the helmet 
 
Henry the Fifth, IV. Hi 8 1 
 
 Lob down their heads, dropping the hides and hips, 
 The gum down-roping from their pale-dead eyes, 48 
 And in their pale dull mouths the gimmal'd bit 
 Lies foul with chew'd grass, still and motionless; 
 And their executors, the knavish crows, 
 Fly o'er them, all impatient for their hour. 52 
 
 Description cannot suit itself in words 
 To demonstrate the life of such a battle 
 In life so lifeless as it shows itself. 
 
 Con. They have said their prayers, and they stay 
 for death. 56 
 
 Dau. Shall we go send them dinners and fresh 
 suits, 
 And give their fasting horses provender, 
 And after fight with them? 
 
 Con. I stay but for my guard: on, to the field! 60 
 
 1 will the banner from a trumpet take, 
 
 And use it for my haste. Come, come, away ! 
 
 The sun is high, and we outwear the day. Exeunt. 
 
 Scene Three 
 
 [The English Ca7wp~\ 
 
 Enter Gloucester, Bedford, Exeter, Erpingham, with 
 all his host: Salisbury, and Westmoreland. 
 
 Glo. Where is the king? 
 
 Bed. The king himself is rode to view their battle. 
 
 West. Of fighting men they have full three-score 
 
 thousand. 
 Exe. There's five to one; besides, they all are 
 
 fresh. 4 
 
 47 Lob down: droop 48 down-roping: hanging down 
 
 49 gimmal'd: made of rings or links 60, 61 Cf. n. 
 
 61 trumpet: trumpeter 63 outwear: are wasting 
 
 2 battle: battle lines 
 
82 The Life of 
 
 Sal. God's arm strike with us ! 'tis a fearful odds. 
 God be wi' you, princes all; I'll to my charge: 
 If we no more meet till we meet in heaven, 
 Then, joyfully, my noble Lord of Bedford, 8 
 
 My dear Lord Gloucester, and my good Lord Exeter, 
 And my kind kinsman, warriors all, adieu ! 
 
 Bed. Farewell, good Salisbury; and good luck go 
 with thee ! 
 
 Exe. Farewell, kind lord. Fight valiantly to- 
 day: 12 
 And yet I do thee wrong to mind thee of it, 
 For thou art fram'd of the firm truth of valour. 
 
 [Exit Salisbury.] 
 
 Bed. He is as full of valour as of kindness; 
 Princely in both. 
 
 Enter the King. 
 
 West. O ! that we now had here 16 
 
 But one ten thousand of those men in England 
 That do no work to-day. 
 
 K. Hen. What's he that wishes so? 
 
 My cousin Westmoreland? No, my fair cousin: 
 If we are mark'd to die, we are enow 20 
 
 To do our country loss ; and if to live, 
 The fewer men, the greater share of honour. 
 God's will ! I pray thee, wish not one man more. 
 By Jove, I am not covetous for gold, 24 
 
 Nor care I who doth feed upon my cost; 
 It yearns me not if men my garments wear; 
 Such outward things dwell not in my desires : 
 But if it be a sin to covet honour, 28 
 
 I am the most offending soul alive. 
 No, faith, my coz, wish not a man from England: 
 
 10 kinsman: i.e., Westmoreland 30 coz: cousin 
 
Henry the Fifth, IV. Hi 83 
 
 God's peace ! I would not lose so great an honour 
 
 As one man more, methinks, would share from me, 32 
 
 For the best hope I have. O! do not wish one more: 
 
 Rather proclaim it, Westmoreland, through my host, 
 
 That he which hath no stomach to this fight, 
 
 Let him depart ; his passport shall be made, 36 
 
 And crowns for convoy put into his purse: 
 
 We would not die in that man's company 
 
 That fears his fellowship to die with us. 
 
 This day is call'd the feast of Crispian: 40 
 
 He that outlives this day, and comes safe home, 
 
 Will stand a tip-toe when this day is nam'd, 
 
 And rouse him at the name of Crispian. 
 
 He that shall live this day, and see old age, 44 
 
 Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbours, 
 
 And say, 'To-morrow is Saint Crispian'; 
 
 Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars, 
 
 And say, 'These wounds I had on Crispin's day.' 
 
 Old men forget: yet all shall be forgot, 49 
 
 But he'll remember with advantages 
 
 What feats he did that day. Then shall our names, 
 
 Familiar in his mouth as household words, 52 
 
 Harry the king, Bedford and Exeter, 
 
 Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury and Gloucester, 
 
 Be in their flowing cups freshly remember'd. 
 
 This story shall the good man teach his son; 56 
 
 And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by, 
 
 From this day to the ending of the world, 
 
 But we in it shall be remembered; 
 
 We few, we happy few, we band of brothers ; 60 
 
 For he to-day that sheds his blood with me 
 
 Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile, 
 
 37 convoy: traveling expenses 40 feast of Crispian: October 25 
 
 45 vigil: eve of a feast-day 50 advantages: added details 
 
 57 Crispin Crispian; cf. n. 62 vile: lozv born 
 
84 The Life of 
 
 This day shall gentle his condition: 
 And gentlemen in England, now a-bed, 64 
 
 Shall think themselves accurs'd they were not here, 
 And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks 
 That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day. 
 
 Enter Salisbury. 
 
 Sal. My sov'reign lord, bestow yourself with 
 speed: 68 
 
 The French are bravely in their battles set, 
 And will with all expedience charge on us. 
 
 K. Hen. All things are ready, if our minds be so. 
 West. Perish the man whose mind is backward 
 now ! 72 
 
 K. Hen. Thou dost not wish more help from Eng- 
 land, coz? 
 West. God's will ! my liege, would you and I alone, 
 Without more help, could fight this royal battle! 
 K. Hen. Why, now thou hast unwish'd five thou- 
 sand men; 76 
 Which likes me better than to wish us one. 
 You know your places : God be with you all ! 
 
 Tucket. Enter Montjoy. 
 
 Mont. Once more I come to know of thee, King 
 Harry, 
 If for thy ransom thou wilt now compound, 80 
 
 Before thy most assured overthrow: 
 For certainly thou art so near the gulf 
 Thou needs must be englutted. Besides, in mercy, 
 The constable desires thee thou wilt mind 84 
 
 Thy followers of repentance; that their souls 
 
 63 gentle his condition: make him a gentleman 
 
 68 bestow yourself: take your post 
 
 69 bravely: with much display 70 expedience : speed 
 80 compound: come to terms 83 englutted: swallowed up 
 
Henry the Fifth, IV. Hi 85 
 
 May make a peaceful and a sweet retire 
 
 From off these fields, where, wretches, their poor 
 
 bodies 
 Must lie and fester. 
 
 K. Hen. Who hath sent thee now ? 88 
 
 Mont. The Constable of France. 
 
 K. Hen. I pray thee, bear my former answer back: 
 Bid them achieve me and then sell my bones. 
 Good God! why should they mock poor fellows 
 thus ? 92 
 
 The man that once did sell the lion's skin 
 While the beast liv'd, was kill'd with hunting him. 
 A many of our bodies shall no doubt 
 Find native graves; upon the which, I trust, 96 
 
 Shall witness live in brass of this day's work; 
 And those that leave their valiant bones in France, 
 Dying like men, though buried in your dung-hills, 
 They shall be fam'd; for there the sun shall greet 
 them, 100 
 
 And draw their honours reeking up to heaven, 
 Leaving their earthly parts to choke your clime, 
 The smell whereof shall breed a plague in France. 
 Mark then abounding valour in our English, 
 That being dead, like to the bullet's grazing, 105 
 
 Break out into a second course of mischief, 
 Killing in relapse of mortality. 
 
 Let me speak proudly: tell the constable, 108 
 
 We are but warriors for the working-day; 
 Our gayness and our gilt are all besmirch'd 
 With rainy marching in the painful field; 
 There's not a piece of feather in our host — 112 
 
 Good argument, I hope, we will not fly — 
 And time hath worn us into slovenry: 
 
 91 achieve: kill 107 relapse of mortality: a deadly rebound 
 
 114 slovenry: slovenliness 
 
86 The Life of 
 
 But, by the mass, our hearts are in the trim; 
 
 And my poor soldiers tell me, yet ere night 116 
 
 They'll be in fresher robes, or they will pluck 
 
 The gay new coats o'er the French soldiers' heads, 
 
 And turn them out of service. If they do this, — 
 
 As, if God please, they shall, — my ransom then 
 
 Will soon be levied. Herald, save thou thy 
 
 labour; 121 
 
 Come thou no more for ransom, gentle herald: 
 They shall have none, I swear, but these my joints; 
 Which if they have as I will leave 'em them, 124 
 
 Shall yield them little, tell the constable. 
 
 Mont. I shall, King Harry. And so, fare thee 
 
 well: 
 Thou never shalt hear herald any more. Exit. 
 
 K. Hen. I fear thou'lt once more come again for 
 
 ransom. 128 
 
 Enter York. 
 
 York. My lord, most humbly on my knee I beg 
 The leading of the vaward. 
 
 K. Hen. Take it, brave York. Now, soldiers, 
 march away: 
 And how thou pleasest, God, dispose the day ! 
 
 Exeunt. 
 
 Scene Four 
 
 [The Field of Battle] 
 
 Alarum: Excursions. Enter Pistol, French Soldier, 
 [and] Boy. 
 Pist. Yield, cur ! 
 
 Fr. Sol. Je pense que vous etes gentil- 
 homme de bonne qualite. 
 
 117 in fresher robes: i.e., dead 130 vaward: vanguard 
 
 Scene Four S. d. Excursions; cf. n. 
 
Henry the Fifth, IF, iv 87 
 
 Pist. Qualtitie calmie custure me. Art thou a 
 gentleman ? 4 
 
 What is thy name? discuss. 
 
 Fr. Sol. O Seigneur Dieu ! 
 Pist. O Signieur Dew should be a gentleman: — 
 Perpend my words, O Signieur Dew, and mark: 
 O Signieur Dew, thou diest on point of fox 9 
 
 Except, O signieur, thou do give to me 
 Egregious ransom. 
 
 Fr. Sol. O, prenez misericorde ! ayez pitie de 
 moi ! 13 
 
 Pist. Moy shall not serve; I will have forty moys; 
 Or I will fetch thy rim out at thy throat 
 In drops of crimson blood. 16 
 
 Fr. Sol. Est-il impossible d'echapper la force 
 de ton bras? 
 Pist. Brass, cur! 
 Thou damned and luxurious mountain goat, 20 
 
 Offer'st me brass? 
 
 Fr. Sol. O pardonnez moi ! 
 Pist. Sayst thou me so? is that a ton of moys? 
 Come hither, boy: ask me this slave in French 
 What is his name. 25 
 
 Boy. ficoutez: comment etes-vous appele? 
 Fr. Sol. Monsieur le Fer. 
 
 Boy. He says his name is Master Fer. 28 
 
 Pist. Master Fer ! I'll fer him, and firk him, 
 and ferret him. Discuss the same in French 
 unto him. 
 
 Boy. I do not know the French for fer, and 
 ferret, and firk. 33 
 
 4 Qualtitie calmie custure me; cf. n. 8 Perpend: consider 
 
 9 fox: sword 14 moys; cf. n. 15 rim: midriff 
 
 20 luxurious: lustful 29 firk: beat 
 30 ferret: worry (as a ferret does its game) 
 
88 The Life of 
 
 Pist. Bid him prepare, for I will cut his throat. 
 
 Fr. Sol. Que dit-il, monsieur? 35 
 
 Boy. II me commande de vous dire que vous 
 faites vous pret; car ce soldat ici est dispose 
 tout a cette heure de couper votre gorge. 
 Pist. Owy, cuppele gorge, permafoy, 
 Peasant, unless thou give me crowns, brave 
 
 crowns ; 40 
 
 Or mangled shalt thou be by this my sword. 
 
 Fr. Sol. O! je vous supplie pour l'amour de 
 Dieu, me pardonner ! Je suis gentilhomme de 
 bonne maison: gardez ma vie, et je vous don- 
 nerai deux cents ecus. 45 
 
 Pist. What are his words? 
 
 Boy. He prays you to save his life: he is a 
 gentleman of a good house; and for his ransom 
 he will give you two hundred crowns. 49 
 
 Pist. Tell him, my fury shall abate, and I 
 The crowns will take. 
 
 Fr. Sol. Petit monsieur, que dit-il ? 52 
 
 Boy. Encore qu'il est contre son jurement 
 de pardonner aucun prisonnier; neanmoins, 
 pour les ecus que vous l'avez promis, il est 
 content de vous donner la liberte, le franchise- 
 ment. 57 
 
 Fr. Sol. Sur mes genoux, je vous donne mille 
 remerciments ; et je m'estime heureux que je 
 suis tombe entre les mains d'un chevalier, je 
 pense, le plus brave, vaillant, et tres distingue 
 seigneur d'Angleterre. 
 
 Pist. Expound unto me, boy. 63 
 
 Boy. He gives you, upon his knees, a thou- 
 sand thanks; and he esteems himself happy 
 that he hath fallen into the hands of one — as he 
 
Henry the Fifth, IV. v 89 
 
 thinks — the most brave, valorous, and thrice- 
 worthy signieur of England. 68 
 Pist. As I suck blood, I will some mercy show. — 
 Follow me! 
 
 Boy. Suivez-vous le grand capitaine. [Exeunt 
 Pistol and French Soldier.] I did never know so 72 
 full a voice issue from so empty a heart: but the 
 saying is true, 'The empty vessel makes the great- 
 est sound.' Bardolph and Nym had ten times 
 more valour than this roaring devil i' the old play, 76 
 that every one may pare his nails with a wooden 
 dagger; and they are both hanged; and so would 
 this be if he durst steal anything adventurously. 
 I must stay with the lackeys, with the luggage 80 
 of our camp: the French might have a good 
 prey of us, if he knew of it; for there is none to 
 guard it but boys. Exit. 
 
 Scene Five 
 [Another Part of the Field] 
 
 Enter Constable, Orleans, Bourbon, Dauphin, and 
 Rambures. 
 
 Con. O diable! 
 
 Orl. O seigneur! le jour est perdu! tout est perdu! 
 
 Dau. Mort de ma vie ! all is confounded, all ! 
 Reproach and everlasting shame 4 
 
 Sit mocking in our plumes. O mechante fortune ! 
 Do not run away. A short alarum. 
 
 Con. Why, all our ranks are broke. 
 
 Dau. . O perdurable shame ! let's stab ourselves. 
 Be these the wretches that we play'd at dice for ? 8 
 
 76 devil i' the old play; cf. n. 7 perdurable: everlasting 
 
90 The Life of 
 
 Orl. Is this the king we sent to for his ransom? 
 
 Bour. Shame, and eternal shame, nothing but 
 shame ! 
 Let's die in honour ! once more back again ; 
 And he that will not follow Bourbon now, 12 
 
 Let him go hence, and with his cap in hand, 
 Like a base pander, hold the chamber-door 
 Whilst by a slave, no gentler than my dog, 
 His fairest daughter is contaminated. 16 
 
 Con. Disorder, that hath spoil'd us, friend us now ! 
 Let us on heaps go offer up our lives. 
 
 Orl. We are enough yet living in the field 
 To smother up the English in our throngs, 20 
 
 If any order might be thought upon. 
 
 Bour. The devil take order now ! I'll to the throng: 
 Let life be short, else shame will be too long. 
 
 Exit [with the others']. 
 
 Scene Six 
 
 [Another Part of the Field] 
 
 Alarum. Enter the King and his train, with 
 Prisoners. 
 
 K. Hen. Well have we done, thrice-valiant country- 
 men: 
 But all's not done ; yet keep the French the field. 
 Exe. The Duke of York commends him to your 
 
 majesty. 
 K. Hen. Lives he, good uncle? thrice within this 
 hour 4 
 
 I saw him down; thrice up again, and fighting; 
 From helmet to the spur all blood he was. 
 
 Exe. In which array, brave soldier, doth he lie, 
 
 18 on heaps: in crowds 
 
Henry the Fifth, IV. vi 91 
 
 Larding the plain; and by his bloody side, — 8 
 
 Yoke-fellow to his honour-owing wounds, — 
 
 The noble Earl of Suffolk also lies. 
 
 Suffolk first died: and York, all haggled over, 
 
 Comes to him, where in gore he lay insteep'd, 12 
 
 And takes him by the beard, kisses the gashes 
 
 That bloodily did yawn upon his face ; 
 
 He cries aloud, 'Tarry, my cousin Suffolk ! 
 
 My soul shall thine keep company to heaven; 16 
 
 Tarry, sweet soul, for mine, then fly abreast, 
 
 As in this glorious and well-foughten field, 
 
 We kept together in our chivalry !' 
 
 Upon these words I came and cheer'd him up: 20 
 
 He smil'd me in the face, raught me his hand, 
 
 And with a feeble gripe says, 'Dear my lord, 
 
 Commend my service to my sovereign.' 
 
 So did he turn, and over Suffolk's neck 24 
 
 He threw his wounded arm, and kiss'd his lips ; 
 
 And so espous'd to death, with blood he seal'd 
 
 A testament of noble-ending love. 
 
 The pretty and sweet manner of it forc'd 28 
 
 Those waters from me which I would have stopp'd; 
 
 But I had not so much of man in me, 
 
 And all my mother came into mine eyes 
 
 And gave me up to tears. 
 
 K. Hen. I blame you not ; 32 
 
 For, hearing this, I must perforce compound 
 With mistful eyes, or they will issue too. Alarum. 
 
 But hark ! what new alarum is this same ? 
 The French have reinforc'd their scatter'd men: 
 Then every soldier kill his prisoners ! 37 
 
 Give the word through. Exit [with his train]. 
 
 8 Larding: enriching (with his blood) 9 honour-owing: honorable 
 
 11 haggled: hacked 21 raught: reached 34 issue: shed tears 
 
92 The Life of 
 
 Scene Seven 
 [Another Part of the Field'] 
 Enter Fluellen and Gower. 
 
 Flu. Kill the poys and the luggage! 'tis ex- 
 pressly against the law of arms: 'tis as arrant 
 a piece of knavery, mark you now, as can be 
 offer't: in your conscience now, is it not? 4 
 
 Gow. 'Tis certain, there's not a boy left alive; 
 and the cowardly rascals that ran from the 
 battle ha' done this slaughter: besides, they 
 have burned and carried away all that was in 
 the king's tent; wherefore the king most 
 worthily hath caused every soldier to cut his 
 prisoner's throat. O ! 'tis a gallant king. 11 
 
 Flu. Ay, he was porn at Monmouth, Captain 
 Gower. What call you the town's name where 
 Alexander the Pig was born? 
 
 Gow. Alexander the Great. 15 
 
 Flu. Why, I pray you, is not pig great? The 
 pig, or the great, or the mighty, or the huge, 
 or the magnanimous, are all one reckonings, 
 save the phrase is a little variations. 19 
 
 Gow. I think Alexander the Great was born 
 in Macedon: his father was called Philip of 
 Macedon, as I take it. 
 
 Flu. I think it is in Macedon where Alex- 
 ander is porn. I tell you, captain, if you look in 
 the maps of the 'orld, I warrant you sail find, 
 in the comparisons between Macedon and Mon- 
 mouth, that the situations, look you, is both 27 
 alike. There is a river in Macedon, and there is 
 also moreover a river at Monmouth: it is called 
 Wye at Monmouth; but it is out of my prains 
 
Henry the Fifth, IV. vii 
 
 what is the name of the other river; but 'tis all 
 one, 'tis alike as my fingers is to my fingers, and 
 there is salmons in both. If you mark Alex- 
 ander's life well, Harry of Monmouth's life is 
 come after it indifferent well ; for there is figures 35 
 in all things. Alexander, — God knows, and you 
 know, — in his rages, and his furies, and his 
 wraths, and his cholers, and his moods, and his 
 displeasures, and his indignations, and also 
 being a little intoxicates in his prains, did, in 
 his ales and his angers, look you, kill his pest 
 friend, Cleitus. 42 
 
 Gow. Our king is not like him in that: he 
 never killed any of his friends. 
 
 Flu. It is not well done, mark you now, to 
 take the tales out of my mouth, ere it is made 
 and finished. I speak but in the figures and 
 comparisons of it: as Alexander killed his friend 48 
 Cleitus, being in his ales and his cups, so also 
 Harry Monmouth, being in his right wits and 
 his good judgments, turned away the fat knight 
 with the great belly-doublet: he was full of 
 jests, and gipes, and knaveries, and mocks; I 
 have forgot his name. 54 
 
 Gow. Sir John Falstaff. 
 
 Flu. That is he. I'll tell you, there is goot 
 men porn at Monmouth. 
 
 Gow. Here comes his majesty. 58 
 
 Alarum. Enter King Harry and Bourbon with 
 [other] prisoners [Warwick, Gloucester, Exeter, 
 and Others']. Flourish. 
 
 K. Hen. I was not angry since I came to France 
 
 34, 35 is come after: resembles 35 figures: analogues 
 
 53 gipes: jokes 
 
94 The Life of 
 
 Until this instant. Take a trumpet, herald ; 60 
 
 Ride thou unto the horsemen on yon hill: 
 
 If they will fight with us, bid them come down, 
 
 Or void the field ; they do offend our sight. 
 
 If they'll do neither, we will come to them, 64 
 
 And make them skirr away, as swift as stones 
 
 Enforced from the old Assyrian slings. 
 
 Besides, we'll cut the throats of those we have, 
 
 And not a man of them that we shall take 68 
 
 Shall taste our mercy. Go and tell them so. 
 
 Enter Mont joy. 
 
 Exe. Here comes the herald of the French, my 
 liege. 
 
 Glo. His eyes are humbler than they us'd to be. 
 
 K. Hen. How now! what means this, herald? 
 know'st thou not 72 
 
 That I have fin'd these bones of mine for ransom? 
 Com'st thou again for ransom? 
 
 Mont. No, great king. 
 
 I come to thee for charitable licence, 
 That we may wander o'er this bloody field 76 
 
 To book our dead, and then to bury them ; 
 To sort our nobles from our common men ; 
 For many of our princes — woe the while ! — 
 Lie drown'd and soak'd in mercenary blood; 80 
 
 So do our vulgar drench their peasant limbs 
 In blood of princes ; and their wounded steeds 
 Fret fetlock-deep in gore, and with wild rage 
 Yerk out their armed heels at their dead masters, 84 
 Killing them twice. O ! give us leave, great king, 
 To view the field in safety and dispose 
 
 63 void: leave 65 skirr: scurry 
 
 73 fin'd: fixed as the price to be paid 77 book: record 
 
 81 vulgar: common soldiers 84 Yerk: strike 
 
Henry the Fifth, IV, vii 95 
 
 Of their dead bodies. 
 
 K. Hen. I tell thee truly, herald, 
 
 I know not if the day be ours or no ; 88 
 
 For yet a many of your horsemen peer 
 
 And gallop o'er the field. 
 
 Mont. The day is yours. 
 
 K. Hen. Praised be God, and not our strength, 
 for it ! 
 
 What is this castle call'd that stands hard by? 
 
 Mont. They call it Agincourt. 93 
 
 K. Hen. Then call we this the field of Agincourt, 
 
 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. 100 
 
 K. Hen. They did, Fluellen. 
 Flu. Your majesty says very true. If your 
 majesties is remembered of it, the Welshmen 
 did good service in a garden where leeks did 
 grow, wearing leeks in their Monmouth caps; 
 which, your majesty know, to this hour is an 
 honourable badge of the service; and I do be- 
 lieve, your majesty takes no scorn to wear the 
 leek upon Saint Tavy's day. 109 
 
 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! 
 
 89 peer: appear 96 grandfather: i.e., great-grandfather 
 
 104 in a garden; cf. n. 105 Monmouth caps; cf. n. 
 
 109 Tavy's: David's 
 
96 The Life of 
 
 K. Hen. Thanks, good my countryman. 116 
 
 Flu. By Jeshu, I am your majesty's country- 
 man, I care not who know it; I will confess it to 
 all the 'orld: I need not be ashamed of your 
 majesty, praised be God, so long as your majesty 
 is an honest man. 121 
 
 K. Hen. God keep me so ! Enter Williams. 
 
 Our heralds go with him: 
 Bring me just notice of the numbers dead 
 On both our parts. Call yonder fellow hither. 
 
 [Exeunt Heralds with Montjoy.] 
 
 Exe. Soldier, you must come to the king. 
 
 K. Hen. Soldier, why wear'st thou that glove in 
 thy cap? 127 
 
 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. 137 
 
 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. 141 
 
 K. Hen. It may be his enemy is a gentleman 
 of great sort, quite from the answer of his degree. 
 
 Flu. Though he be as good a gentleman as 
 the devil is, as Lucifer and Belzebub himself, it 
 
 123 just notice: exact information 124 parts: sides 
 
 143 great sort: high rank from . . . degree: above answering the 
 
 challenge of one of his rank 
 
Henry the Fifth, IV. vii 97 
 
 is necessary, look your Grace, that he keep his 
 vow and his oath. If he be perjured, see you 
 now, his reputation is as arrant a villain and a 
 Jack-sauce as ever his black shoe trod upon 
 God's ground and his earth, in my conscience, 
 la ! 151 
 
 K. Hen. Then keep thy vow, sirrah, when 
 thou meetest the fellow. 
 
 Will. So I will, my liege, as I live. 
 
 K. Hen. Who servest thou under ? 
 
 Will. Under Captain Gower, my liege. 156 
 
 Flu. Gower is a goot captain, and is good 
 knowledge and literatured in the wars. 
 
 K. Hen. Call him hither to me, soldier. 
 
 Will. I will, my liege. Exit. 
 
 K. Hen. Here, Fluellen ; wear thou this favour 
 for me and stick it in thy cap. When Alencon 162 
 and myself were down together I plucked this 
 glove from his helm: if any man challenge this, 
 he is a friend to Alencon, and an enemy to our 
 person; if thou encounter any such, apprehend 
 him, and thou dost me love. 167 
 
 Flu. Your Grace does me as great honours as 
 can be desired in the hearts of his subjects: I 
 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, and 
 please God of his grace that I might see. 173 
 
 K. Hen. Knowest thou Gower ? 
 
 Flu. He is my dear friend, an 't please you. 
 
 K. Hen. Pray thee, go seek him, and bring 
 him to my tent. 177 
 
 Flu. I will fetch him. Exit. 
 
 149 Jack-sauce: impudent rascal 167 love: an act of kindness 
 
98 The Life of 
 
 K. Hen. My Lord of Warwick, and my brother 
 Gloucester, 
 Follow Fluellen closely at the heels. 180 
 
 The glove which I have given him for a favour, 
 May haply purchase him a box o' the ear; 
 It is the soldier's; I by bargain should 
 Wear it myself. Follow, good cousin Warwick: 
 If that the soldier strike him, — as I judge 185 
 
 By his blunt bearing he will keep his word, — 
 Some sudden mischief may arise of it; 
 For I do know Fluellen valiant, 188 
 
 And touch'd with choler, hot as gunpowder, 
 And quickly will return an injury: 
 Follow and see there be no harm between them. 
 Go you with me, uncle of Exeter. Exeunt. 
 
 Scene Eight 
 
 [Before King Henry's Pavilion] 
 
 Enter Gower and Williams. 
 
 Will. I warrant it is to knight you, captain. 
 
 Enter Fluellen. 
 
 Flu. God's will and his pleasure, captain, I 
 peseech you now come apace to the king: there 
 is more good toward you peradventure than is 
 in your knowledge to dream of. 5 
 
 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. 8 
 
 Strikes him. 
 
 Flu. "Sblood ! an arrant traitor as any's in 
 the universal world, or in France, or in England. 
 
 4 toward: intended for 9 'Sblood: God's blood 
 
Henry the Fifth, IV. viii 99 
 
 Gow. How now, sir ! you villain ! 
 
 Will. Do you think I'll be forsworn? 12 
 
 Flu. Stand away, Captain Gower; I will give 
 treason his payment into plows, I warrant you. 
 
 Will. I am no traitor. 
 
 Flu. That's a lie in thy throat. I charge you 
 in his majesty's name, apprehend him: he is a 
 friend of the Duke Alencon's. 18 
 
 Enter Warwick and Gloucester. 
 
 War. How now, how now! what's the matter? 
 
 Flu. My Lord of Warwick, here is, — praised 
 be God for it ! — a most contagious treason come 
 to light, look you, as you shall desire in a 
 summer's day. Here is his majesty. 
 
 Enter King and Exeter. 
 
 K. Hen. How now ! what's the matter ? 24 
 
 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 Alencon. 
 
 Will. My liege, this was my glove ; here is the 28 
 fellow of it; and he that I gave it to in change 
 promised to wear it in his cap: I promised 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. 33 
 
 Flu. Your majesty hear now, — saving your 
 majesty's manhood, — what an arrant, rascally, 
 beggarly, lousy knave it is. I hope your majesty 
 is pear me testimony and witness, and will 
 avouchment, that this is the glove of Alencon that 
 your majesty is give me; in your conscience now. 
 
 37 is pear: will bear 38 avouchment: make acknowledgment 
 
ioo The Life of 
 
 K. Hen. Give me thy glove, soldier : look, 
 here is the fellow of it. 41 
 
 'Twas I, indeed, thou promisedst to strike; 
 And thou hast given me most bitter terms. 
 
 Flu. An 't 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 satis- 
 faction ? 48 
 
 Will. All offences, my lord, 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 lowli- 
 ness ; and what your highness suffered under 56 
 that shape, I beseech you, take it for your own 
 fault and not mine: for had you been as I took 
 you for, I made no offence; therefore, I beseech 
 your highness, pardon me. 60 
 
 K. Hen. Here, uncle Exeter, fill this glove with 
 crowns, 
 And give it to this fellow. Keep it, fellow ; 
 And wear it for an honour in thy cap 
 Till I do challenge it. Give him the crowns : 64 
 
 And, captain, you must needs be friends with him. 
 Flu. By this day and this light, the fellow 
 has mettle enough in his belly. Hold, there is 
 twelve pence for you, and I pray you to serve 68 
 God, and keep you out of prawls, and prabbles, 
 and quarrels, and dissensions, and, I warrant 
 you, it is the better for you. 
 
 43 terms: words 55 lowliness: humble bearing 
 
 69 prabbles: squabbles 
 
Henry the Fifth, IV. viii 101 
 
 Will. I will none of your money. 72 
 
 Flu. It is with a good will; I can tell you it 
 will serve you to mend your shoes: come, where- 
 fore should you be so pashful? your shoes is not 
 so good: 'tis a good shilling, I warrant you, or I 
 will change it. 77 
 
 Enter [an English] Herald. 
 
 K. Hen. Now, herald, are the dead number'd ? 
 
 Her. Here is the number of the slaughter'd French. 
 
 K. Hen. What prisoners of good sort are taken, 
 uncle ? 80 
 
 Exe. Charles Duke of Orleans, nephew to the king; 
 John Duke of Bourbon, and Lord Bouciqualt: 
 Of other lords and barons, knights and squires, 
 Full fifteen hundred, besides common men. 84 
 
 K. Hen. This note doth tell me of ten thousand 
 French 
 That in the field lie slain: of princes, in this number, 
 And nobles bearing banners, there lie dead 
 One hundred twenty-six : added to these, 88 
 
 Of knights, esquires, and gallant gentlemen, 
 Eight thousand and four hundred; of the which 
 Five hundred were but yesterday dubb'd knights: 
 So that, in these ten thousand they have lost, 92 
 
 There are but sixteen hundred mercenaries; 
 The rest are princes, barons, lords, knights, squires, 
 And gentlemen of blood and quality. 
 The names of those their nobles that lie dead : 96 
 
 Charles Delabreth, High Constable of France; 
 Jaques of Chatillon, Admiral of France; 
 The master of the cross-bows, Lord Rambures ; 
 
 80 good sort: rank 
 
102 The Life of 
 
 Great Master of France, the brave Sir Guichard 
 Dolphin; loo 
 
 John Duke of Alencon; Anthony Duke of Brabant, 
 The brother to the Duke of Burgundy, 
 And Edward Duke of Bar: of lusty earls, 
 Grandpre and Roussi, Fauconberg and Foix, 104 
 
 Beaumont and Marie, Vaudemont and Lestrale. 
 Here was a royal fellowship of death ! 
 Where is the number of our English dead? 
 
 [Herald presents another paper.~\ 
 Edward the Duke of York, the Earl of Suffolk, 
 Sir Richard Ketly, Davy Gam, esquire: 109 
 
 None else of name: and of all other men 
 But five and twenty. O God ! thy arm was here ; 
 And not to us, but to thy arm alone, 112 
 
 Ascribe we all. When, without stratagem, 
 But in plain shock and even play of battle, 
 Was ever known so great and little loss 
 On one part and on the other? Take it, God, 
 For it is none but thine ! 
 
 Exe. 'Tis wonderful ! 117 
 
 K. Hen. Come, go we in procession to the village : 
 And be it death proclaimed through our host 
 To boast of this or take the praise from God 120 
 
 Which is his only. 
 
 Flu. Is it not lawful, an please your majesty, 
 
 to tell how many is killed? 
 
 K. Hen. Yes, captain ; but with this acknowledg- 
 ment, 124 
 That God fought for us. 
 
 Flu. Yes, my conscience, he did us great good. 
 
 K. Hen. Do we all holy rites : 
 Let there be sung 'Non nobis' and 'Te Deum' ; 128 
 
 110 name: eminence 128 Non nobis; cf. n. 
 
Henry the Fifth, V. Chorus ios 
 
 The dead with charity enclos'd in clay. 
 
 And then to Calais ; and to England then, 
 
 Where ne'er from France arriv'd more happy men. 
 
 Exeunt. 
 
 ACT FIVE 
 Enter Chorus. 
 
 Vouchsafe to those that have not read the story, 
 
 That I may prompt them: and of such as have, 
 
 I humbly pray them to admit the excuse 
 
 Of time, of numbers, and due course of things, 4 
 
 Which cannot in their huge and proper life 
 
 Be here presented. Now we bear the king 
 
 Toward Calais: grant him there; there seen, 
 
 Heave him away upon your winged thoughts 8 
 
 Athwart the sea. Behold, the English beach 
 
 Pales in the flood with men, with wives, and boys, 
 
 Whose shouts and claps out-voice the deep-mouth'd 
 
 sea, 
 Which, like a mighty whiffler 'fore the king, 12 
 
 Seems to prepare his way: so let him land 
 And solemnly see him set on to London. 
 So swift a pace hath thought that even now 
 You may imagine him upon Blackheath ; 16 
 
 Where that his lords desire him to have borne 
 His bruised helmet and his bended sword 
 Before him through the city: he forbids it, 
 Being free from vainness and self-glorious pride; 20 
 Giving full trophy, signal and ostent, 
 Quite from himself, to God. But now behold, 
 In the quick forge and working-house of thought, 
 
 7 grant: imagine 10 Pales in : en compasses 
 
 12 whiffler: officer who went at the head of a procession 
 21 signal: symbols of victory ostent: triumphal show 
 
104 The Life of 
 
 How London doth pour out her citizens. 24 
 
 The mayor and all his brethren in best sort, 
 Like to the senators of the antique Rome, 
 With the plebeians swarming at their heels, 
 Go forth and fetch their conquering Caesar in: 
 As, by a lower but loving likelihood, 29 
 
 Were now the general of our gracious empress, — 
 As in good time he may, — from Ireland coming, 
 Bringing rebellion broached on his sword, 32 
 
 How many would the peaceful city quit 
 To welcome him ! much more, and much more cause, 
 Did they this Harry. Now in London place him ; 
 As yet the lamentation of the French 36 
 
 Invites the King of England's stay at home, — 
 The emperor's coming in behalf of France, 
 To order peace between them ; — and omit 
 All the occurrences, whatever chanc'd, 40 
 
 Till Harry's back-return again to France: 
 There must we bring him ; and myself have play'd 
 The interim, by remembering you 'tis past. 
 Then brook abridgment, and your eyes advance, 
 After your thoughts, straight back again to France. 
 
 Exit. 
 
 Scene One 
 
 [France. The English camp] 
 
 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, asse my 4 
 friend, Captain Gower. The rascally, scald, 
 
 25 sort: array 30 general: Earl of Essex; cf. n. 
 
 32 broached: transfixed 38 emperor's; cf. n. 
 
 39 order: arrange 5 scald: scurvy 
 
Henry the Fifth, V. i ios 
 
 beggarly, lousy, pragging knave, Pistol, — which 
 you and yourself and all the world know to be no 
 petter than a fellow, look you now, of no merits, — 8 
 he is come to me and prings me pread and salt 
 yesterday, look you, and pid me eat my leek. It 
 was in a place where I could not preed no con- 
 tention with him ; but I will be so pold as to 12 
 wear it in my cap till I see him once again, and 
 then I will tell him a little piece of my desires. 
 Gow. Why, here he comes, swelling like a 
 turkey-cock. 16 
 
 Enter Pistol. 
 
 Flu. 'Tis no matter for his swellings nor his 
 turkey-cocks. God pless you, Aunchient Pistol! 
 you scurvy, lousy knave, God pless you ! 
 Pist. Ha! art thou bedlam? dost thou thirst, base 
 
 Troyan, 20 
 
 To have me fold up Parca's fatal web? 
 Hence ! I am qualmish at the smell of leek. 
 
 Flu. I peseech you heartily, scurvy, lousy 
 knave, at my desires and my requests and my 24 
 petitions to eat, look you, this leek; pecause, 
 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. 28 
 
 Pist. Not for Cadwallader and all his goats. 
 
 Flu. There is one goat for you. Strikes him. 
 Will you be so good, scald knave, as eat it? 
 
 Pist. Base Troyan, thou shalt die. 32 
 
 Flu. You say very true, scald knave, when 
 God's will is. I will desire you to live in the 
 
 11,12 preed . . . contention: push a quarrel 
 
 20 bedlam: mad Troyan: Trojan, cant term for rioter 
 
 21 Parca: i.e., Parcce, the Fates 
 
 29 Cadwallader: the last of the Welsh kings 
 
106 The Life of 
 
 mean time and eat your victuals; come, there 
 is sauce for it. [Strikes him again.'] You called 36 
 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 
 him. 41 
 
 Flu. I say, I will make him eat some part of 
 my leek, or I will peat his pate four days. Bite, 
 I pray you ; it is good for your green wound and 
 your ploody coxcomb. 45 
 
 Pist. Must I bite? 
 
 Flu. Yes, certainly, and out of doubt and 
 out of question too and ambiguities. 48 
 
 Pist. By this leek, I will most horribly re- 
 venge. I eat and eat, I swear — 
 
 Flu. Eat, I pray you: will you have some 
 more sauce to your leek? there is not enough 
 leek to swear by. 53 
 
 Pist. Quiet thy cudgel: thou dost see I eat. 
 
 Flu. Much good do you, scald knave, heart- 
 ily. Nay, pray you, throw none away; the 
 skin is good for your broken coxcomb. When 
 you take occasions to see leeks hereafter, I pray 
 you, mock at 'em; that is all. 
 
 Pist. Good. 60 
 
 Flu. Ay, leeks is good. Hold you, there is a 
 groat to heal your pate. 
 
 Pist. Me a groat! 
 
 Flu. Yes, verily and in truth, you shall take 
 it; or I have another leek in my pocket, which 
 you shall eat. 66 
 
 40 astonished: stunned (?) 45 coxcomb: head 
 
 62 groat: a coin worth fourpence 
 
Henry the Fifth, V. i 107 
 
 Pist. I take thy groat in earnest of revenge. 
 Flu. If I owe you anything 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 hell shall stir for this. 72 
 
 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 76 
 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, be- 
 cause he could not speak English in the native 80 
 garb, he could not therefore handle an English 
 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 ? 85 
 
 News have I that my Doll is dead i' the spital 
 Of malady of France: 
 
 And there my rendezvous is quite cut off. 88 
 
 Old I do wax, and from my weary limbs 
 Honour is cudgell'd. Well, bawd I'll turn, 
 And something lean to cutpurse of quick hand. 
 To England will I steal, and there I'll steal: 92 
 
 And patches will I get unto these cudgell'd scars, 
 And swear I got them in the Gallia wars. Exit. 
 
 75 respect: consideration 77 avouch : support 
 
 78 gleeking: scoffing galling: jeering 81 garb: manner 
 
 84 condition : disposition 85 huswife: jilt 
 
108 The Life of 
 
 Scene Two 
 
 [An Apartment in the French King's Palace] 
 
 Enter at one door, King Henry, Exeter, Bedford, 
 Warwick, [Gloucester, Clarence,] and other 
 Lords; at another, Queen Isabel, [the Princess 
 Katharine, Alice and other Ladies,] the [French] 
 King, the Duke of Burgundy, and other French. 
 
 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 
 To our most fair and princely cousin Katharine; 
 And, as a branch and member of this royalty, 5 
 
 By whom this great assembly is contriv'd, 
 We do salute you, Duke of Burgundy; 
 And, princes French, and peers, health to you all ! 8 
 
 Fr. King. Right joyous are we to behold your face, 
 Most worthy brother England; fairly met: 
 So are you, princes English, every one. 
 
 Q. Isa. So happy be the issue, brother England, 
 Of this good day and of this gracious meeting, 13 
 
 As we are now glad to behold your eyes ; 
 Your eyes, which hitherto have borne in them 
 Against the French, that met them in their bent, 
 The fatal balls of murdering basilisks : 17 
 
 The venom of such looks, we fairly hope, 
 Have lost their quality, and that this day 
 Shall change all griefs and quarrels into love. 20 
 
 K. Hen. To cry amen to that, thus we appear. 
 
 Q. Isa. You English princes all, I do salute you. 
 
 Bur. My duty to you both, on equal love, 
 
 3 fair time of day: a common form of greeting 
 
 16 bent: aim or glance 17 basilisks: large cannon; cf. n. 
 
Henry the Fifth, V. ii 109 
 
 Great Kings of France and England! That I have 
 labour'd 24 
 
 With all my wits, my pains, and strong endeavours, 
 To bring your most imperial majesties 
 Unto this bar and royal interview, 
 Your mightiness on both parts best can witness. 
 Since then my office hath so far prevail'd 29 
 
 That face to face, and royal eye to eye, 
 You have congreeted, let it not disgrace me 
 If I demand before this royal view, 32 
 
 What rub or what impediment there is, 
 Why that the naked, poor, and mangled Peace, 
 Dear nurse of arts, plenties, and joyful births, 
 Should not in this best garden of the world, 36 
 
 Our fertile France, put up her lovely visage? 
 Alas ! she hath from France too long been chas'd, 
 And all her husbandry doth lie on heaps, 
 Corrupting in it own fertility. 40 
 
 Her vine, the merry cheercr of the heart, 
 Unpruned dies; her hedges even-pleach'd, 
 Like prisoners wildly overgrown with hair, 
 Put forth disorder'd twigs ; her fallow leas 44 
 
 The darnel, hemlock and rank fumitory 
 Doth root upon, while that the coulter rusts 
 That should deracinate such savagery; 
 The even mead, that erst brought sweetly forth 48 
 The freckled cowslip, burnet, and green clover, 
 Wanting the scythe, all uncorrected, rank, 
 Conceives by idleness, and nothing teems 
 But hateful docks, rough thistles, kecksies, burs, 
 
 27 bar: barrier; place of meeting 
 
 31 congreeted: exchanged greetings 32 view: presence 40 it: its 
 
 42 even-pleach'd: evenly interzuoven 44 leas: arable land 
 
 45 darnel: a weed injurious to crops fumitory: a weed with a bitter 
 
 taste 46 coulter : ploughshare 
 
 47 deracinate: uproot 52 kecksies: dry stalk s 
 
no The Life of 
 
 Losing both beauty and utility ; 53 
 
 And all our vineyards, fallows, meads, and hedges, 
 
 Defective in their natures, grow to wildness. 
 
 Even so our houses and ourselves and children 
 
 Have lost, or do not learn for want of time, 57 
 
 The sciences that should become our country, 
 
 But grow like savages, — as soldiers will, 
 
 That nothing do but meditate on blood, — 60 
 
 To swearing and stern looks, diffus'd attire, 
 
 And everything that seems unnatural. 
 
 Which to reduce into our former favour 
 
 You are assembled; and my speech entreats 64 
 
 That I may know the let why gentle Peace 
 
 Should not expel these inconveniences, 
 
 And bless us with her former qualities. 
 
 K. Hen. If, Duke of Burgundy, you would the 
 peace, 68 
 
 Whose want gives growth to the imperfections 
 Which you have cited, you must buy that peace 
 With full accord to all our just demands; 
 Whose tenours and particular effects 72 
 
 You have, enschedul'd briefly, in your hands. 
 
 Bur. The king hath heard them; to the which as 
 vet, 
 There is no answer made. 
 
 K. Hen. Well then the peace, 
 
 Which you before so urg'd, lies in his answer. 76 
 
 Fr. King. I have but with a cursorary eye 
 O'erglanc'd the articles : pleaseth your Grace 
 To appoint some of your council presently 
 To sit with us once more, with better heed 80 
 
 61 diffus'd: disordered 63 reduce: bring back favour: aspect 
 
 65 let: impediment 72 tenours: purport 
 
 73 enschedul'd: drawn up in writing 77 cursorary: cursory 
 
Henry the Fifth, V. ii 1 1 1 
 
 To re-survey them, we will suddenly- 
 Pass our accept and peremptory answer. 
 
 K. Hen. Brother, we shall. Go, uncle Exeter, 
 And brother Clarence, and you, brother Gloucester, 84 
 Warwick and Huntingdon, go with the king; 
 And take with you free power to ratify, 
 Augment, or alter, as your wisdoms best 
 Shall see advantageable for our dignity, 88 
 
 Anything in or out of our demands, 
 And we'll consign thereto. Will you, fair sister, 
 Go with the princes, or stay here with us? 
 
 Q. Isa. Our gracious brother, I will go with 
 them. 92 
 
 Haply a woman's voice may do some good 
 When articles too nicely urg'd be stood on. 
 
 K. Hen. Yet leave our cousin Katharine here with 
 us: 
 She is our capital demand, compris'd 96 
 
 Within the fore-rank of our articles. 
 Q. Isa. She hath good leave. 
 
 Exeunt [all except King Henry, Katharine, 
 
 and Alice]. 
 K. Hen. Fair Katharine, and most fair ! 
 
 Will you vouchsafe to teach a soldier terms, 
 Such as will enter at a lady's ear, 100 
 
 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? 107 
 
 81 suddenly: soon 82 accept: decisive peremptory: final 
 
 90 consign : agree 96 capital: chief 
 
112 The Life of 
 
 Kath. Pardonnez-moi, I cannot tell wat is 
 'like me.' 
 
 K. Hen. An angel is like you, Kate ; and you 
 are like an angel. 
 
 Kath. Que dit-il? que je suis semblable a les 
 anges ? 113 
 
 Alice. Oui, vraiment, sauf votre grace, ainsi 
 dit-il. 
 
 K. Hen. I said so, dear Katharine ; and I 
 must not blush to affirm it. 117 
 
 Kath. O bon Dieu ! les langues des hommes 
 sont pleines de tromperies. 
 
 K. Hen. What says she, fair one ? that the 
 tongues of men are full of deceits ? 121 
 
 Alice. Oui, dat de tongues of de mans is be 
 full of deceits: dat is de princess. 
 
 K. Hen. The princess is the better English- 
 woman. I* faith, Kate, my wooing is fit for thy 
 understanding: I am glad thou canst speak no 
 better English ; for, if thou couldst, thou wouldst 
 find me such a plain king that thou wouldst 
 think I had sold my farm to buy my crown. I 129 
 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?' 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 votre honneur, me understand well. 
 
 K. Hen. Marry, if you would put me to verses, 
 or to dance for your sake, Kate, why you undid 137 
 me: for the one, I have neither words nor mea- 
 sure, and for the other, I have no strength in 
 measure, yet a reasonable measure in strength. 
 
 137 undid: would undo 138 measure; cf. n. 
 
Henry the Fifth, V. ii 1 i 3 
 
 If I could win a lady at leap-frog, or by vaulting 
 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 145 
 favours, I could lay on like a butcher and sit 
 like a jack-an-apes, never off. But before God, 
 Kate, I cannot look greenly nor gasp out my 
 eloquence, nor I have no cunning in protesta- 
 tion; only downright oaths, which I never use 
 till urged, nor never break for urging. If thou 
 canst love a fellow of this temper, Kate, whose 
 face is not worth sun-burning, that never looks 153 
 in his glass for love of anything he sees there, 
 let thine eye be thy cook. I speak to thee plain 
 soldier: if 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. And while thou livest, dear Kate, take a 
 fellow of plain and uncoined constancy, for he 
 perforce must do thee right, because he hath 161 
 not the gift to woo in other places; for these 
 fellows of infinite tongue, that can rime them- 
 selves into ladies' favours, they do always reason 
 themselves out again. What! a speaker is but 
 a prater; a rime is but a ballad. A good leg 
 will fall, a straight back will stoop, a black beard 
 will turn white, a curled pate will grow bald, a 
 fair face will wither, a full eye will wax hollow, 169 
 but a good heart, Kate, is the sun and the 
 moon; or, rather, the sun, and not the moon; 
 
 145 buffet: box bound my horse: make my horse leap 
 
 147 jack-an-apes: monkey 148 greenly: foolishly 
 
 149 cunning: skill 152 temper: disposition 
 
 155 let . . . cook; cf. n. 160 uncoined constancy: cf. n. 
 
 167 fall: shrink 
 
114 The Life of 
 
 for it shines bright and never changes, but keeps 
 his course truly. If thou would have such a one, 
 take me; and take me, take a soldier; take a 
 soldier, take a king. And what sayest thou then to 
 my love? speak, my fair, and fairly, I pray thee. 
 Kath. Is it possible dat I sould love de 
 enemy of France? 178 
 
 K. Hen. No; it is not possible you should 
 love the enemy of France, Kate; but, in loving 
 me, you should love the friend of France; for 
 I love France so well, that I will not part with 
 a village of it; I will have it all mine: and, 
 Kate, when France is mine and I am yours, 
 then yours is France and you are mine. 185 
 
 Kath. I cannot tell wat is dat. 
 
 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. Je quand sur le posses- 
 sion de France, et quand vous avez le possession 
 de moi, — let me see, what then? Saint Denis 192 
 be my speed! — done votre est France, et vous 
 etes 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. 197 
 
 Kath. Sauf votre honneur, le francais que 
 vous parlez, il est meilleur que l'anglais lequel je 
 parle. 200 
 
 K. Hen. No, faith, is 't not, Kate ; but thy 
 speaking of my tongue, and I thine, most truly 
 falsely, must needs be granted to be much at 
 
 192 Saint Denis: patron saint of France 
 
 193 be my speed: aid me 
 
Henry the Fifth, V.ii ns 
 
 one. But, Kate, dost thou understand thus 
 much English, Canst thou love me? 205 
 
 Kath. I cannot tell. 
 
 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 210 
 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, Kate, — as I have a saving 
 faith within me tells me thou shalt, — I get thee 
 with scambling, and thou must therefore needs 217 
 prove a good soldier-breeder. Shall not thou 
 and I, between Saint Denis and Saint George, 
 compound a boy, half French, half English, 
 that shall go to Constantinople and take the 
 Turk by the beard? shall we not? what sayest 
 thou, my fair flower-de-luce? 
 
 Kath. I do not know dat. 224 
 
 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 cher et 
 devin deesse? 231 
 
 Kath. Your majeste ave fausse French enough 
 to deceive de most sage demoiselle dat is en 
 France. 234 
 
 K. Hen. Now, fie upon my false French ! By 
 
 203,204 at one: alike 210 closet: chamber 217 scambling: fighting 
 223 flower-de-luce: fleur-de-lys, the emblem of France 
 228 moiety: half 
 
116 The Life of 
 
 mine honour, in true English I love thee, Kate: 
 by which honour I dare not swear thou lovest 
 me; yet my blood begins to flatter me that thou 
 dost* notwithstanding the poor and untempering 
 effect of my visage. Now beshrew my father's 240 
 ambition ! he was thinking of civil wars when 
 he got me: therefore was I created with a stub- 
 born outside, with an aspect of iron, that, when 
 I come to woo ladies, I fright them. But, in 
 faith, Kate, the elder I wax the better I shall 
 appear: my comfort is, that old age, that ill 
 layer-up of beauty, can do no more spoil upon 
 my face : thou hast me, if thou hast me, at the 248 
 worst; and thou shalt wear me, if thou wear me, 
 better and better. And therefore tell me, most 
 fair Katharine, will you have me? Put off your 
 maiden blushes; avouch the thoughts of your 
 heart with the looks of an empress; take me 
 by the hand, and say 'Harry of England, I am 
 thine': which word thou shalt no sooner bless 
 mine ear withal, but I will tell thee aloud, 256 
 'England is thine, Ireland is thine, France is 
 thine, and Henry Plantagenet is thine'; who, 
 though I speak it before his face, if he be not 
 fellow with the best king, thou shalt find the 260 
 best king of good fellows. Come, your answer 
 in broken music; for thy voice is music, and 
 thy English broken; therefore, queen of all, 
 Katharine, break thy mind to me in broken 
 English: wilt thou have me? 265 
 
 Kath. Dat is as it shall please de roi mon pere. 
 
 239 untempering: unsoftening 240 beshrew: a plague upon 
 
 247 layer-up: preserver 260 fellow with : a match for 
 
 262 broken music; cf. n. 264 break: disclose 
 
Henry the Fifth, V. it 1 1 7 
 
 K. Hen. Nay, it will please him well, Kate ; 
 it shall please him, Kate. 268 
 
 Kath. Den it shall also content me. 
 
 K. Hen. Upon that I kiss your hand, and I 
 call you my queen. 
 
 Kath. Laissez, mon seigneur, laissez, laissez ! 
 Ma foi, je ne veux point que vous abaissiez votre 
 grandeur, en baisant la main d'une de votre seig- 
 neurie indigne serviteur: excusez-moi, je vous 
 supplie, mon tres-puissant seigneur. 276 
 
 K. Hen. Then I will kiss your lips, Kate. 
 
 Kath. Les dames, et demoiselles, pour etre 
 baisees devant leur noces, il n'est pas la cou- 
 tume de France. 280 
 
 K. Hen. Madam my interpreter, what says she ? 
 
 Alice. Dat it is not be de fashion pour les 
 ladies of France, — I cannot tell wat is baiser 
 en Anglish. 284 
 
 K. Hen. To kiss. 
 
 Alice. Your majesty entendre bettre que moi. 
 
 K. Hen. It is not a fashion for the maids in 
 France to kiss before they are married, would 
 she say? 289 
 
 Alice. Oui, vraiment. 
 
 K. Hen. O Kate ! nice customs curtsy to great 
 kings. Dear Kate, you and I cannot be confined 
 within the weak list of a country's fashion: we 293 
 are the makers of manners, Kate; and the 
 liberty that follows our places stops the mouths 
 of all find-faults, as I will do yours, for uphold- 
 ing the nice fashion of your country in denying 
 me a kiss : therefore, patiently, and yielding 298 
 [Kissing her]. You have witchcraft in your lips, 
 
 291 curtsy: bow 293 list: barrier 
 
118 The Life of 
 
 Kate: there is more eloquence in a sugar touch 
 of them, than in the tongues of the French 
 council; and they should sooner persuade 
 Harry of England than a general petition of 
 monarchs. Here comes your father. 304 
 
 Enter the French Power, and the English Lords. 
 
 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 I love her; and that is 
 good English. 309 
 
 Bur. Is she not apt? 
 
 K. Hen. Our tongue is rough, coz, and my 
 condition is not smooth; so that, having neither 
 the voice nor the heart of flattery about me, I 
 cannot so conjure up the spirit of love in her, 
 that he will appear in his true likeness. 315 
 
 Bur. Pardon the frankness of my mirth if I 
 answer you for that. If you would conjure in 
 her, you must make a circle; if conjure up Love 
 in her in his true likeness, he must appear 
 naked and blind. Can you blame her then, 320 
 being a maid yet rosed over with the virgin 
 crimson of modesty, if she deny the appearance 
 of a naked blind boy in her naked seeing self? 
 It were, my lord, a hard condition for a maid 
 to consign to. 325 
 
 K. Hen. Yet they do wink and yield, as love 
 is blind and enforces. 
 
 Bur. They are then excused, my lord, when 
 they see not what they do. 329 1 
 
 318 circle; cf. n. 
 
Henry the Fifth, V.ii n 9 
 
 K. Hen. Then, good my lord, teach your 
 cousin to consent winking. 
 
 Bur. I will wink on her to consent, my lord, 
 if you will teach her to know my meaning: for 
 maids, well summered and warm kept, are like 
 flies at Bartholomew-tide, blind, though they 335 
 have their eyes ; and then they will endure hand- 
 ling, which before would not abide looking on. 
 
 K. Hen. This moral ties me over to time 
 and a hot summer; and so I shall catch the 
 fly, your cousin, in the latter end, and she must 
 be blind too. 341 
 
 Bur. As love is, my lord, before it loves. 
 
 K. Hen. It is so: and you may, some of you, 
 thank love for my blindness, who cannot see 
 many a fair French city for one fair French 
 maid that stands in my way. 346 
 
 Fr. King. Yes, my lord, you see them per- 
 spectively, the cities turned into a maid; for 
 they are all girdled with maiden walls that war 
 hath never entered. 
 
 K. Hen. Shall Kate be my wife? 
 
 Fr. King. So please you. 352 
 
 K. Hen. I am content ; so the maiden cities 
 you talk of may wait on her: so the maid that 
 stood in the way for my wish shall show me the 
 way to my will. 356 
 
 Fr. King. We have consented to all terms of 
 reason. 
 
 K. Hen. Is 't so, my lords of England? 
 West. The king hath granted every article: 
 His daughter first, and then in sequel all, 361 
 
 According to their firm proposed natures. 
 
 335 Bartholomew-tide: St. Bartholomew's day, August 24 
 347 perspectively; cf. n. 
 
120 The Life of 
 
 Exe. Only he hath not yet subscribed this: 
 Where your majesty demands, that the King of 
 France, having any occasion to write for matter 
 of grant, shall name your highness in this form, 366 
 and with this addition, in French. Notre tres cher 
 fils Henry roi d'Angleterre, Heritier de France; 
 and thus in Latin, Praeclarissimus iilius noster 
 Henricus, Rex Angliae, et Hseres Francise. 
 Fr. King. Nor this I have not, brother, so denied, 
 But your request shall make me let it pass. 372 
 
 K. Hen. I pray you then, in love and dear alliance, 
 Let that one article rank with the rest; 
 And thereupon give me your daughter. 
 
 Fr. King. Take her, fair son ; and from her blood 
 raise up 376 
 
 Issue to me; that the contending kingdoms 
 Of France and England, whose very shores look pale 
 With envy of each other's happiness, 
 May cease their hatred, and this dear conjunction 
 Plant neighbourhood and Christian-like accord 
 In their sweet bosoms, that never war advance 
 His bleeding sword 'twixt England and fair France. 
 All. Amen! 384 
 
 K. Hen. Now, welcome, Kate: and bear me witness 
 all, 
 That here I kiss her as my sovereign queen. 
 
 Flourish. 
 Q. Isa. God, the best maker of all marriages, 
 Combine your hearts in one, your realms in one ! 
 As man and wife, being two, are one in love, 389 
 
 So be there 'twixt your kingdoms such a spousal 
 That never may ill office, or fell jealousy, 
 Which troubles oft the bed of blessed marriage, 
 
 363 subscribed: signed 367 addition: title 
 
 369 Praeclarissimus; cf. n. 381 neighbourhood: neighborly feeling 
 
Henry the Fifth, V. ii 121 
 
 Thrust in between the paction of these kingdoms, 
 To make divorce of their incorporate league; 
 That English may as French, French Englishmen, 
 Receive each other ! God speak this Amen ! 396 
 
 All. Amen! 
 
 K. Hen. Prepare we for our marriage: on which 
 day, 
 My Lord of Burgundy, we'll take your oath, 
 And all the peers', for surety of our leagues. 400 
 
 Then shall I swear to Kate, and you to me; 
 And may our oaths well kept and prosperous be ! 
 
 Sennet. Exeunt. 
 
 EPILOGUE 
 
 Enter Chorus. 
 
 Thus far, with rough and all-unable pen, 
 
 Our bending author hath pursu'd the story; 
 In little room confining mighty men, 3 
 
 Mangling by starts the full course of their glory. 
 Small time, but in that small most greatly liv'd 
 
 This star of England: Fortune made his sword, 
 By which the world's best garden he achiev'd, 7 
 
 And of it left his son imperial lord. 
 Henry the Sixth, in infant bands crown'd King 
 
 Of France and England, did this king succeed; 
 Whose state so many had the managing, 11 
 
 That they lost France and made his England bleed: 
 Which oft our stage hath shown ; and, for their sake, 
 In your fair minds let this acceptance take. 14 
 
 393 paction: alliance 402 S. d. Sennet: set of notes on a trumpet 
 
 2 bending: i.e., bending beneath the burden of his task 
 
 4 starts: a fragmentary representation 14 this: this play 
 
 FINIS. 
 
NOTES 
 
 Prol. 11. cockpit. A pit or enclosure for the popu- 
 lar Elizabethan sport of cockfighting. The expres- 
 sion is not to be taken literally, but merely as part of 
 Shakespeare's disparagement of his inadequate repre- 
 sentation of the great events of King Henry's reign. 
 The Vooden O' of line 13 presumably refers to the 
 Globe theatre, built in 1599. The Globe is thought 
 to have been octagonal on the exterior, but the interior 
 was probably circular. 
 
 Prol. 16. Attest. The 'crooked figure' that may 
 stand for a million is probably the figure '1/ which 
 was a very crooked figure as the Elizabethans wrote it. 
 
 Prol. 29. jumping o'er times. The action of the 
 play covers a period of six years, from 1414 to 1420. 
 
 Prol. 32. Chorus. This term, an inheritance from 
 the drama of Greece and Rome, is used by Shake- 
 speare simply as a name by which to designate the 
 speaker of his prologues; i.e., a single actor. 
 
 I. i. S. d. Bishops. The stage directions of the 
 Folio do not discriminate between the titles of Arch- 
 bishop and Bishop either here or in the second scene. 
 
 I. i. 35. Hydra-headed. The Hydra of Lerna was 
 a nine-headed monster slain by Hercules. When one 
 head was struck off, two new ones grew in its place. 
 
 I. i. 46. Gordian knot. An oracle had declared 
 that he who untied this famous knot, tied by King 
 Gordius of Phrygia, should rule over Asia. Alexander 
 the Great cut the knot with his sword, declaring that 
 he was destined to fulfill the oracle. 
 
 I. i. 51. art. The word as used here means the 
 application of theory to practice. King Henry, re- 
 versing the usual process, appears to have learned the 
 theory of statesmanship from practical endeavor. 
 
Henry the Fifth 123 
 
 This, the Archbishop says, is strange, in view of the 
 frivolity of his earlier years. 
 
 I. i. 89. Edward. King Henry's claim to the 
 French throne rested upon his descent from Philip IV 
 of France. Henry's great-grandfather, Edward III 
 of England, was the son of Isabella, daughter to 
 Philip IV. Her three brothers died without male 
 heirs. Upon the death of the third (Charles IV), 
 Isabella claimed the French throne for her son 
 Edward; but an assembly of French peers and 
 barons barred the English king's claim, declaring that 
 'no woman, nor therefore her son, could in accordance 
 with custom succeed to the monarchy of France.' 
 Later the doctrine thus enunciated became known as 
 the Salic law. (Cf. I. ii. 38.) The crown of France 
 passed to a younger branch of the French royal 
 family of Capet. 
 
 I. ii. 11. law Salique. The Salic law is stated, in 
 Latin, in line 38 below. (See preceding note.) 
 
 I. ii. 57. four hundred one-and-twenty years. In 
 giving this figure, Shakespeare has perpetuated a mis- 
 take in arithmetic made by Holinshed. Throughout 
 this long historical lecture Shakespeare is following 
 his source very closely. 
 
 I. ii. 65. King Pepin. Pepin the Short, who 
 usurped the throne of Childeric III in 751, was the 
 first of the Carolingian family to take the title of 
 King of the Franks. 
 
 I. ii. 69. Hugh Capet. First king of the family of 
 Capet, who came to the throne in 987. The 'Lady 
 Lingare' of line 74 appears to have been a totally 
 fictitious personage. Ritson, commenting on this pas- 
 sage, says that 'these fictitious persons and pedigrees 
 seem to have been devised by the English heralds.' 
 
 I. ii. 77. Lewis the Tenth. It should be Lewis the 
 Ninth (Saint Louis, 1214-1270). Shakespeare copies 
 the error from Holinshed. 
 
 I. ii. 94. Than amply to imbar their crooked titles. 
 
124 The Life of 
 
 This line has been variously interpreted according to 
 the meaning attached to the word 'imbar.' It appears 
 most reasonable to translate the word as 'to bar in' or 
 'to secure': The kings of France prefer to involve 
 themselves in contradictions ('hide them in a net') 
 rather than fully to secure their own titles by show- 
 ing that although they are descended from the female, 
 like King Henry, their claim is stronger than his. 
 
 I. ii. 106-114. The Archbishop is alluding to the 
 battle of Crecy, August 26, 1346. 
 
 I. ii. 120. May-morn of his youth. King Henry 
 was twenty-six years old. 
 
 I. ii. 126. So hath your highness. 'Your highness 
 hath indeed what they think and know you have.' 
 (Malone.) The emphasis is upon hath. 
 
 I. ii. 160. impounded. David Bruce, king of Scot- 
 land, was taken prisoner by the English at Nevill's 
 Cross, October 17, 1346. 
 
 I. ii. 266. chaces. The word is a technical expres- 
 sion from the old game of tennis, used of the second 
 impact on the floor of a ball which the opponent had 
 failed or declined to return. The value of the chace 
 was determined by the nearness of the spot of impact 
 to the end wall. If the opponent, on changing sides, 
 could better the stroke by causing his ball to rebound 
 nearer the wall, he scored the point; otherwise it was 
 scored by the first player. Hence the word chaces 
 came to be practically equivalent to 'points scored,' 
 and Harry seems to use it figuratively in that sense in 
 this passage. 
 
 I. ii. 270. living hence. On account of his 'addic 
 tion to courses vain' in his younger days, Henry lost 
 his place at the royal council-table and became 'al- 
 most an alien to the hearts of all the court.' (Cf. 
 Henry IV, Part 1, III. ii. 32 ff.) In that sense h 
 might be said to have been living in exile from his 
 native royalty. 
 
Henry the Fifth 125 
 
 II. Chor. 31, 32. Linger your patience on, etc. 
 'Extend your patience, and we will overcome the ordi- 
 nary limitations of distance and produce a play by 
 pressing widely separated events into a narrow com- 
 pass.' 
 
 II. Chor. 41, 42. Bat, till . . . scene. The mean- 
 ing is quite obvious here, in spite of the curiously per- 
 verted construction: 'We shall shift our scene to 
 Southampton ; but not until the king comes forth.' 
 
 II. i. 6. there shall be smiles. Probably Nym 
 means that when the time is ripe, the quarrel shall 
 end in good humor. 
 
 II. i. 11. there's an end. Nym's language is a 
 patchwork of the current phrases of the day, which he 
 uses without any particular regard to their relevancy: 
 'that's the certain of it,' 'that is my rest,' 'things must 
 be as they may,' 'there must be conclusions,' etc. 
 
 II. i. 17. rest. A technical term in the old game of 
 Primero, meaning 'stake' or 'wager.' 
 
 II. i. 18. that is the rendezvous of it. This is but 
 one more of Nym's current phrases, and it is< not 
 necessary to suppose that it carries any more mean- 
 ing than the others. 
 
 II. i. 44. Iceland dog. Obviously Pistol means 
 this to be a very scathing term of abuse. There are 
 frequent references, in early seventeenth-century 
 books, to the shaggy, snappish dogs brought over from 
 Iceland to serve as lap-dogs. Whether Pistol had in 
 mind their unhandsome appearance or their evil 
 temper is uncertain. 
 
 II. i. 57. Barbason. Nym, unimpressed by the 
 sound and fury of Pistol's speech, assures him that he 
 cannot dispose of him, as conjurers dealt with fiends, 
 by uttering high-sounding words. 
 
 II. i. 77. hound of Crete. Although some editors 
 believe that Pistol means to imply that Nym is as 
 bloodthirsty as a Cretan bloodhound, such an impli- 
 cation seems far-fetched and out of place here. Like 
 
126 The Life of 
 
 the 'Iceland dog' of line 44, the expression is merely 
 a term of abuse without any precise application, and 
 chosen for no particular reason, unless it be Pistol's 
 artistic craving for variety. 
 
 II. i. 79. powdering-tub. Literally, a tub in which 
 meat was salted. Here it is used to denote the hot 
 bath which formed part of the treatment for certain 
 diseases. 
 
 II. i. 80. kite of Cressid's hind. This expression 
 appears to have been a stock phrase in the literature 
 of the day. Both Gascoigne and Greene use it. 
 Henryson's Testament of Cresseid had told of Cres- 
 sid's transformation into a leperous beggar (lazar). 
 
 II. i. 86. thy face. Bardolph's fiery complexion is j 
 the subject of more than one jest in Henry IV. j 
 Fluellen supplies us with further information on the 
 same subject in III. vi. 110 ff. 
 
 II. i. 124. quotidian tertian. Dame Pistol has been 
 so pleased with the learned sound of these medical 
 terms that she uses them without any knowledge of 
 their meaning. As a result, she confuses the quotidian j 
 fever, in which the paroxysms recur daily, with the 
 tertian, in which the interval of recurrence is three 
 days. 
 
 II. i. 130. corroborate. Of course the literal mean- I 
 ing of this word is quite inappropriate here; but that 
 need not trouble us, as it obviously did not trouble 
 Pistol, who uses it merely because it is a big word. 
 
 II. i. 133. careers. A term used to designate gal- j 
 loping a horse at full speed, backward and forward, j 
 Probably 'passes some careers' is Nym's way of say- I 
 ing 'Gives a free rein to his whims.' 
 
 II. ii. 118. bade thee stand up. 'Commanded thee j 
 to rise and do his bidding,' as one might give orders 2 
 to a servant who could be relied upon for unquestion- | 
 ing obedience. Possibly, like the word dub in line | 
 120, this is an allusion to the formula used in con- 1 
 ferring knighthood. 
 
Henry the Fifth 127 
 
 II. ii. 155-157. For me . . . intended. 'Diuerse 
 write that Richard earle of Cambridge did not con- 
 spire with the lord Scroope and Thomas Graie for 
 the murthering of king Henrie to please the French 
 king withall, but onelie to the intent to exalt to the 
 crowne his brother in law Edmund earle of March 
 as heire to Lionell duke of Clarence: after the death 
 of which earle of March . . . the earl of Cambridge 
 was sure that the crowne should come to him by his 
 wife, and to his children, of hir begotten.' (Holins- 
 hed.) 
 
 II. iii. 9. Arthur's bosom. Obviously the hostess 
 means Abraham's bosom. Cf. St. Luke 16. 22. 
 
 II. iii. 17, 18. and a' babbled of green fields. This 
 is the famous emendation offered by Theobald (1688- 
 1744) for the incomprehensible 'and a Table of greene 
 fields' of the Folio. 
 
 II. iv. S. d. Constable. The Constable of France, 
 originally the principal officer of the household of the 
 French kings, was at this time the commander-in-chief 
 of the French army in the absence of the monarch. 
 
 II. iv. 25. Whitsun morris-dance. Whitsuntide is 
 the week commencing with Whitsunday (the seventh 
 Sunday after Easter), especially the first three days 
 of the week. The morris-dance was a fantastic dance 
 which commonly formed part of the Whitsuntide fes- 
 tivities in English villages. The name 'morris' is de- 
 rived from 'Moorish' and would seem to indicate that 
 the dance was imported from Spain. 
 
 II. iv. 37. Brutus. The reference is to Lucius 
 Junius Brutus, who simulated madness to conceal his 
 plans for the liberation of his country from the tyr- 
 anny of Tarquinius Superbus. 
 
 II. iv. 50. flesh'd. Hounds and hawks, in train- 
 ing for the chase, were fed with flesh. 
 
 III. ii. 3. corporal. In Act II, Scene i, Bardolph 
 is called 'Lieutenant.' 
 
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 III. ii. 6. plain-song. A simple melody without 
 variations. 
 
 III. ii. 65. the mines is not. It is hardly neces- 
 sary to point out the many irregularities in Captain 
 Fluellen's use of singulars and plurals. He takes 
 similar liberties with actives and passives and with 
 the verbs 'to be' and 'to have.' In his speeches, as in 
 those of the Scotch and Irish officers, dialect pecu- 
 liarities are not explained unless they present unusual 
 difficulties. 
 
 III. ii. 136-139. Of my . . . nation. Macmorris, 
 who is of an excitable Celtic temperament, is quick to 
 resent a fancied sneer at his country. 
 
 III. v. 7. scions. This word originally denoted 
 small twigs cut from one tree and grafted upon an- 
 other. The Dauphin is referring, of course, to the 
 Norman extraction of the English. 
 
 III. v. 12. but. Grammatically the oath, 'Mort 
 de ma vie,' governs this word. 'If these Englishmen 
 march along uncontested, death take me if I do not 
 sell my dukedom.' 
 
 III. v. 36. Montjoy. Not a name, but a title, 
 borne by the chief heralds of France through many 
 centuries. It is probable, however, that Shakespeare 
 himself supposed that it was a name. Cf. III. vi. 150. 
 
 III. vi. S. d. English and Welch. The use of 
 these words as synonyms for the names of Gower and 
 Fluellen emphasizes Shakespeare's intention of repre- 
 senting national types in these captains. 
 
 III. vi. 13. aunchient lieutenant. Fluellen, with 
 characteristic redundancy, gives Pistol two different 
 titles. 
 
 III. vi. 42. pax. Perhaps this is a mistake for 
 'pyx,' the box containing the Host or consecrated 
 wafer of the Mass. To steal a pyx would be a very 
 serious sacrilege, and we know that on this expedition 
 King Henry ordered a man hanged for such a theft. 
 The pax, on the other hand, was a less sacred object — 
 
Henry the Fifth 129 
 
 the piece of wood or metal, engraved with the picture 
 of Christ, which was given to the laity to be kissed 
 during the celebration of the Mass. 
 
 III. vi. 62. The fig of Spain. Pistol merely re- 
 peats and elaborates the exclamation of line 59. 
 'Figo' was the Spanish word for 'fig.' 
 
 III. vii. 14. as if his entrails were hairs. The 
 tennis balls of the day were stuffed with hair. Cf. 
 Much Ado About Nothing, III. ii. 46, 47. 
 
 III. vii. 19. pipe of Hermes. Hermes, by playing 
 on his pipe, charmed the hundred-eyed Argus to sleep. 
 
 III. vii. 71, 72. 'The dog is turned to his own vomit 
 again ; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing 
 in the mire.' (2 Peter 2. 22.) 
 
 III. vii. 98. go to hazard. Shakespeare adopts 
 this incident from Holinshed. 'The Frenchmen in the 
 meanewhile, as though they had beene sure of vic- 
 torie, made great triumphe, for the capteins had deter- 
 mined before how to diuide the spoile, and the soldiers 
 the night before had plaid the Englishmen at dice.' 
 
 III. vii. 126. 'tis a hooded valour. This is a meta- 
 phor drawn from falconry. The hawk was kept 
 hooded till it was released to fly at the game. 'To 
 bate' was to flap the wings, as the hawk invariably 
 did, after being unhooded, preparatory to flight. 
 Probably the Constable uses this word punningly with 
 a play upon another meaning of 'bate' : to dwindle, to 
 diminish. 
 
 IV. i. 55. Saint Davy's day. It was an old Welsh 
 custom to wear a leek upon Saint David's day to 
 commemorate the victory said to have been won by 
 King Arthur over the Saxons on Saint David's day 
 in the year 540 A. D. It is the tradition that the 
 battle was fought in a garden where leeks were grow- 
 ing and that Saint David ordered Arthur's soldiers to 
 wear the leek in honour of the victory. Shakespeare 
 
130 The Life of 
 
 refers to this custom in two other passages in this 
 play: IV. vi. 102 ff. and V. i. 74. 
 
 IV. i. 246. French crowns. There is a double pun 
 here: a play upon two different meanings of 'crown/ 
 and an allusion to the crime of clipping gold coins. 
 
 IV. i. 283. The farced title. Perhaps there is an 
 allusion here to the herald that goes before the king 
 and proclaims his full title in high-sounding phrases. 
 More probably running 'fore means 'prefixed to' the 
 name of the king. 
 
 IV. i. 321. chantries. Originally a chantry was 
 an endowment for the maintenance of one or more 
 priests to sing daily mass for the souls of the founders 
 or others specified by them. Later it came to mean 
 a chapel, altar, or part of a church so endowed. 
 
 IV. i. 323-325. Though all that I can do, etc. King 
 Henry acknowledges that such works of piety as 
 the founding of chantries have availed him noth- 
 ing; not by such means can he cleanse his conscience 
 of the sense of guilt. After all that he can do, he 
 must still penitently implore pardon. 
 
 IV. ii. 36. dare the field. Another phrase bor- 
 rowed from the terminology of falconry. The bird 
 was said to be 'dared' when it was so terrified by the 
 hawk that it kept close to the ground. 
 
 IV. ii. 60, 61. The French 'thought themselues so 
 sure of victorie, that diuerse of the noble men made 
 such hast towards the battell, that they left manie of 
 their seruants and men of warre behind them, and 
 some of them would not once staie for their standards : 
 as, amongst other, the duke of Brabant, when his 
 standard was not come, caused a baner to be taken 
 from a trumpet and fastened to a speare; the which 
 he commanded to be borne before him in steed of his 
 standard.' (Holinshed.) 
 
 IV. iii. 57. Crispin Crispian. Saint Crispin's day 
 was sacred to two brothers, Crispinus and Crispianus, 
 
Henry the Fifth 131 
 
 who were martyred for their faith at Soissons early 
 in the fourth century. 
 
 IV. iv. S. d. Excursions. This stage direction in- 
 dicates that small groups of armed men hurry across 
 the stage as if in the heat of battle. 
 
 IV. iv. 4. Qualtitie calmie custure me. This is the 
 reading of the Folio. The passage is usually emended 
 to read, 'Quality? Calen O custure me!' The last 
 four words in this amended reading form the refrain 
 of a popular Irish song of Shakespeare's day and are 
 a corruption of the Irish phrase, 'Colleen, oge asture,' 
 i.e., 'young girl, my treasure.' According to this con- 
 jecture, Pistol repeats the only word he has under- 
 stood in the French gentleman's speech and follows 
 it by quoting, with characteristic irrelevancy, the 
 burden of this popular song. The present editor has 
 restored the Folio reading because the resemblance 
 between Pistol's words and the burden of the song 
 is not close enough to be altogether convincing; but 
 the theory represents the most satisfactory explana- 
 tion that has been offered. C. D. Stewart (Some 
 Textual Difficulties in Shakespeare, Yale University 
 Press, 1914, pp. 71-74) argues that Pistol is trying to 
 talk French: 'Quel titre comme accoster me.' 
 
 IV. iv. 14. moys. Probably the French 'muys' or 
 'muids,' a measure of corn, equal to five quarters Eng- 
 lish measure. It has also been suggested that 'moys' 
 were some sort of coin. 
 
 IV. iv. 76. devil i the old play. This refers not 
 to any particular play, but to the old Morality plays, 
 in which the Devil was frequently the butt of the 
 Vice or clown, who, armed with a wooden dagger, sub- 
 jected him to all manner of physical indignities. The 
 'roaring devil' in these plays presented just such a 
 combination of braggadocio and cowardice as Pistol. 
 . IV. vii. 104. in a garden. This is another refer- 
 ence to the traditional Arthurian battle in the leek- 
 garden. Cf. IV. i. 55 and note. 
 
132 The Life of 
 
 IV. vii. 105. Monmouth caps. These caps were 
 soft and flat, with a plume, and were worn particu- 
 larly by soldiers. As their name indicates, they were 
 originally made at Monmouth, where the cap-making 
 industry appears to have flourished. 'The best caps 
 were formerly made at Monmouth, where the Capper's 
 Chapel doth still remain.' (Fuller, Worthies of 
 Wales, 1660.) 
 
 IV. viii. 128. Non nobis. This is the one hundred 
 and fifteenth psalm, which begins, in the Latin ver- 
 sion, 'Non nobis, Domine, non nobis, sed nomini tuo 
 da gloriam.' 
 
 V. Chor. 30. general. Robert Devereux, Earl of 
 Essex, set out from London on March 27, 1599, to 
 suppress Tyrone's rebellion in Ireland. (Cf. Appen- 
 dix B.) His return was by no means the triumph 
 which Shakespeare prophesies in these lines. He mis- 
 managed his campaign most conspicuously, frequently 
 acting in opposition to the commands of the queen, 
 and finally concluded a truce with Tyrone in Septem- 
 ber in order that he might be free to return to London 
 and vindicate himself before the queen. In the fol- 
 lowing June he was called before a special court to 
 answer for his mismanagement of the mission and 
 was deprived of his offices. 
 
 V. Chor. 38. emperor's. In five lines the Chorus 
 passes over the events of four years. Emperor Sigis- 
 mund landed at Dover on May 1, 1416, about six 
 months after the battle of Agincourt, and immediately 
 set about his task of making peace between England 
 and France; but it was not until May, 1420, that the 
 peace treaty was signed. Shakespeare makes no 
 reference to Henry's second military expedition to 
 France and the long siege of Rouen. 
 
 V. ii. 17. basilisks. The basilisk cannon was 
 named after a fabulous serpent, the basilisk or cocka- 
 trice, that was said to kill its victims with a glance. 
 
Henry the Fifth 133 
 
 V. ii. 138. measure. Shakespeare frequently plays 
 on the various meanings of this word. Here he first 
 uses the word in the sense of 'metre'; secondly, of 
 'dancing'; and thirdly, of 'amount.' 
 
 V. ii. 155. let thine eye be thy cook. Let thine eye 
 dress me in attractions to suit thy taste. 
 
 •V. ii. 160. uncoined constancy. Henry means that 
 his love has not been stamped out into the form of 
 glib phrases such as pass current among more accom- 
 plished but less sincere lovers. 
 
 V. ii. 262. broken music. 'Part music,' arranged 
 for different kinds of instruments. 
 
 V. ii. 318. circle. The making of a circle was part 
 of the elaborate preparations of conjurers for the 
 exercise of their magic. Within the circle the con- 
 jurer was supposed to be immune from the baleful 
 influences of the evil spirits that he raised. 
 
 V. ii. 347. perspectively. As through a 'perspec- 
 tive/ i.e., an instrument producing fantastic optical 
 illusions. 
 
 V. ii. 369. Pro? claris simus. Once more Shake- 
 speare has copied one of Holinshed's errors. The 
 word should be 'praecarissimus,' the Latin equivalent 
 for the French 'tres cher.' 
 
APPENDIX A 
 
 Sources of the Play 
 
 Virtually all the historical material for Henry V 
 was drawn from Raphael Holinshed's Chronicles of 
 England, Scotland, and Ireland (Second Edition, 
 1587). A few minor incidents — the embassy of the 
 tennis balls, Pistol's encounter with the French sol- 
 dier, and the wooing scene of Act V — seem to have 
 been suggested by the crude old chronicle play, The 
 Famous Victories of Henry V, licensed for the press 
 in 1594. The characters of the sub-plot — Pistol, 
 Fluellen, and the rest — are entirely original. 
 
 Shakespeare follows Holinshed almost word for 
 word in certain passages of the play; particularly in 
 the account of the bill against the clergy, in the Arch- 
 bishop's argument in favor of Henry's claim to the 
 French throne, and in the list of the casualties at the 
 battle of Agincourt. More typical of his usual treat- 
 ment of his sources are the passages in which he has 
 caught up a suggestion or two from the prosy chron- 
 icle and transformed them into glowing poetry. The 
 following quotation from Holinshed, for example, 
 contains the only hints which Shakespeare found in 
 his source for King Henry's stirring appeal to his 
 officers on the morning of Saint Crispin's day: 
 
 'It is said, that as he heard one of the host vtter his 
 wish to another thus : I would to God there were with 
 vs now so manie good soldiers as are at this houre 
 within England! the king answered: I would not wish 
 a man more here than I haue; we are indeed in com- 
 parison to the enimies but a few, but if God of his 
 clemencie doo fauour vs, and our iust cause, (as I 
 trust he will,) we shall speed well inough. But let 
 no man ascribe victorie to our owne strength and 
 
Henry the Fifth 135 
 
 might, but onelie to God's assistance; to whome I 
 haue no doubt we shall worthilie haue cause to giue 
 thanks therefore. And if so be that for our offenses 
 sakes we shall be deliuered into the hands of our 
 enimies, the lesse number we be, the lesse damage 
 shall the realme of England susteine; but if we should 
 fight in trust of multitude of men, and so get the 
 victorie, (our minds being prone to pride,) we should 
 therevpon peraduenture ascribe the victorie not so 
 much to the gift of God, as to our owne puissance, 
 and thereby prouoke his high indignation and dis- 
 pleasure against vs: and if the enimie get the vpper 
 hand, then should our realme and countrie suffer 
 more damage and stand in further danger. But be 
 you of good comfort, and shew your selues valiant! 
 God and our iust quarrell shall defend vs, and deliuer 
 these our proud aduersaries with all the multitude of 
 them which you see (or at the least the most of them) 
 into our hands.' 
 
 APPENDIX B 
 
 The History of the Play 
 
 The production of Henry V has been assigned, on 
 very substantial evidence, to the year 1599. Francis 
 Meres, giving a list of Shakespeare's plays in a book 
 published in 1598, makes no mention of Henry V, 
 although his list includes Henry IV. The play was 
 entered on the Stationers' Register in August, 1600, 
 and the first edition was published in that year. The 
 reference to the 'wooden O' in line 1 3 of the Prologue 
 is usually supposed to be an allusion to the Globe 
 Theatre, which was completed in 1599. Most sig- 
 nificant of all, the lines in the Prologue to Act V 
 referring to the Earl of Essex must have been written 
 
136 The Life of 
 
 and spoken during the earl's absence in Ireland, which 
 extended from March 27 until September 28, 1599. 
 
 Three very imperfect editions of the play appeared 
 prior to the publication of the First Folio in 1623. 
 The First Quarto (1600) omits all the prologues, the 
 epilogue, and several entire scenes. These and other 
 omissions, notably in the long speeches, which are 
 much curtailed, shorten the play by some seventeen 
 hundred lines. The errors and absurdities of the edi- 
 tion are many; particularly in the scenes written in 
 French (which is very 'fausse French' indeed as it 
 appears in this volume), and in the prose scenes, 
 where an heroic attempt has been made to transform 
 the prose into poetry. It is now generally believed 
 that the First Quarto is an imperfect edition of a 
 shortened acting version of the play, and it may 
 have been made up for the press largely from notes 
 taken in the theatre during a performance. The 
 Second Quarto (1602) and the Third Quarto, dated 
 1608, but really printed in 1619, are reprints of the 
 edition of 1600, very slightly amended and without 
 independent value. Modern editors accept the text , 
 of the First Folio (1623) as the most reliable, and 
 have adopted the reading of the Quartos in only a 
 few instances. 
 
 A funeral elegy on Richard Burbage, Shakespeare's 
 most famous fellow actor, gives us the information 
 that the part of King Flenry was one in which Bur- 
 bage won distinction. The unknown writer laments: 
 
 Poor Romeo never more shall tears beget 
 
 For Juliet's love and cruel Capulet; 
 
 Harry shall not be seen as king or prince, 
 
 They died with thee, dear Dick (and not long since.) 
 
 This is the only bit of information we have as to the 
 early stage history of Henry V. The records of Sir 
 Henry Herbert show that a play entitled 'Henry the 
 5th' was licensed for the stage in 1663, but it is not 
 
Henry the Fifth 137 
 
 certain that this record refers to Shakespeare's play. 
 We have positive record of a performance given at 
 Covent Garden Theatre, February 23, 1738. Seven 
 years later, at the time of the last Jacobite rising, the 
 play was once more presented at the same theatre, 
 perhaps by way of stirring the patriotism of the Lon- 
 doners at a time when the Scots were marching on 
 the city and France was supposed to be preparing to 
 invade England. In this latter performance, the part 
 of Pistol was played by the younger Cibber. Garrick 
 presented the play at Drury Lane on December 16, 
 1747, but left the part of King Henry to Barry, ap- 
 pearing himself as the Chorus, in the costume of the 
 day — 'a full-dress court suit with powdered bag-wig, 
 ruffles, and sword.' 
 
 Under the lavish management of Rich, Covent 
 Garden gave a very elaborate production in 1761, in- 
 cluding an interpolated scene, borrowed from Henry 
 IV, Part 2, representing the coronation procession. 
 The popular actress, George Anne Bellamy, walked 
 in the procession as Queen. Another spectacular 
 touch was added in the revival of 1769 at the same 
 theatre by the introduction of the Champion (of the 
 coronation ceremony) in full armor and on horse- 
 back. Drury Lane revived the play for the first time 
 in twenty j^ears in 1789, with John Philip Kemble as 
 Henry; and the same actor performed the part from 
 time to time during his career. He secured a telling 
 stage effect at the close of Act IV by suddenly inter- 
 rupting his prayer, at the sound of the trumpet, and 
 rushing off the stage sword in hand. On March 8, 
 1830, Edmund Kean appeared at Drury Lane in the 
 role of King Henry. His memory failed him during 
 the performance and he was obliged to apologize to 
 the audience from the stage. During the nineteenth 
 century the play was performed also by William 
 Macready, Samuel Phelps and Charles Kean. The 
 production given by the latter at the Princess's 
 
138 Henry the Fifth 
 
 Theatre in 1859 was a very ambitious undertaking 
 and met with so great a success that the play ran to 
 eighty-four performances. Kean attached a great 
 deal of importance to historical accuracy. His set- 
 ting for the siege of Harfleur was constructed after 
 careful study of a Latin manuscript giving an account 
 of the siege as seen by a priest who accompanied the 
 army. A further spectacular effect was secured by 
 transforming the description of Henry's return to 
 London, as given by the Chorus, into an actual stage 
 spectacle. Mrs. Charles Kean recited the prologues 
 in the character of Clio, Muse of History. The most 
 conspicuous production in England during the 
 twentieth century was given by Lewis Waller at the 
 Lyceum Theatre in 1900, at the time when the Boer 
 war had stimulated British patriotism. Lily Hanbury 
 appeared as Chorus in Waller's production. 
 
 In America, the first performance of the play of 
 which we have any record took place at the Park 
 Theatre in New York in 1804, with Cooper as King 
 Henry. Macready and Waller brought their produc- 
 tions to this country from England, the latter in 1912. 
 In 1876 John Coleman produced the play in New 
 York at great expense, but it ran for only a week. 
 Most noteworthy of the American performances is 
 Richard Mansfield's magnificent presentation in 1900. 
 The production opened at the Garden Theatre, New 
 York City, October 3, after the most elaborate prepa- 
 rations, and had a very successful run, playing to 
 crowded houses in New York, Philadelphia, and 
 Chicago. Mansfield stated that he was led to produce 
 the play by 'a consideration of its healthy and virile 
 tone, so diametrically in contrast to many of the per- 
 formances now current.' 
 
 A great memorial performance of Henry V in 
 London, May 4, 1916, attracted a 'full and enthu- 
 siastic' house, and evoked comments upon the con- 
 temporaneous effect of many scenes. 
 
APPENDIX C 
 
 The Text of the Present Edition 
 
 By permission of the Oxford University Press, the 
 text of this edition of Henry V is that of Craig's 
 Oxford Shakespeare, with the following alterations: 
 
 1. The stage directions are those of the First Folio, 
 with necessary additions indicated by brackets. 
 
 2. French passages throughout the play have in 
 general been modernized. 
 
 3. A few changes have been made in punctuation 
 (such as what, man for what man in II. iii. 19) ; and 
 the spelling of the following words has been nor- 
 malized: warlike, ooze, ordnance, antics, villainy, 
 wrecked, lackey, embattl'd. 
 
 4. All other departures from Craig's text repre- 
 sent reversions to the reading of the First Folio. In 
 the following list of such changes, the reading of the 
 present edition stands first in the line: the reading of 
 the Oxford Shakespeare follows the colon. 
 
 I. ii. 22 our: the 
 
 I. ii. 30 For: And 
 
 I. ii. 74 th' heir: heir 
 
 I. ii. 99 man: son 
 
 I. ii. 151 assays: essays 
 
 I.ii.208 Come: Fly 
 
 II. Chor. 31 on, and we'll: on; and well 
 
 II. Chor. 32 distance; force: distance while we force 
 
 II. i. 75 Couple a gorge: Coupe le gorge 
 II. ii. 104 and: from 
 
 II. ii. 179, 180 give You patience: give you Patience 
 
 II. iv. 1 comes: come 
 
 II. iv. 57 mountain sire: mounting sire 
 II. iv. 75, 115 brother of: brother 
 
 III. i. 34 Harry, England, and: Harry! England 
 and 
 
 III. ii. 50, 51 fire-shovel: I knew . . . coals. They: 
 fire-shovel; — I knew . . . coals — they 
 
140 Henry the Fifth 
 
 III. ii. 69 yard: yards 
 
 III. ii. 79 beard: peard 
 
 III. ii. 120 call: calls 
 
 III. ii. 129 pay 't: pay it 
 
 III. ii. 145, 157 war: wars 
 
 III. v. 41 of Berri: Berri 
 
 III. vii. 15 chez: qui a 
 III.vii.54 Nay, for: Ma foi, 
 
 IV. Chor. 28 O now: O ! now 
 
 IV. Chor. 45 fear, that mean and gentle all: fear. — 
 Then mean and gentle all, 
 
 I V. i. 35 Che vous la: Qui va la 
 
 IV. i. 47 from heart-string: from my heart-string 
 
 IV. i. 77 hear: heard 
 
 IV. i. 154 who: whom 
 IV. i. 260 idol: idle 
 IV. i. 312 Lord,: Lord! 
 
 I V. ii. 49 gimmal'd: gimmal 
 
 IV. iv. 4 Qualtitie calmie custure me: Quality? 
 
 Calen O custure me! 
 
 IV.iv.39 Owy: Ouy 
 
 IV. vi. 15 He cries aloud, 'Tarry, my: And cries 
 
 aloud, 'Tarry, dear 
 
 IV. vii. 7 ha': have 
 IV. vii. 167 and: an 
 
 IV. viii. 10 world: 'orld 
 
 IV. viii. 37, 38 and will avouchment : and avouchments 
 
 IV. viii. 100 Great Master . . . Guichard . . . Dolphin: 
 Great-master . . . Guischard . . . Dau- 
 phin 
 
 IV. viii. 101 Anthony: Antony 
 
 IV. viii. 130 And then: We'll then 
 
 V. i. 7 world : 'orld 
 
 V. i. 39 leek, vou : leek you 
 
 V.i.86 Doll: 'Nell 
 
 V. i. 90 cudgell'd : cudgelled 
 
 V. ii. 40 it: its 
 
 V. ii. 54 all: as 
 
 V. ii. 55 wildness. : wildness, 
 
 V. ii. 102 shall: sail 
 V. ii. 108 wat: vat 
 V. ii. 135 well: veil 
 V. ii. 186 wat: vat 
 V. ii. 266 shall: sail 
 V. ii. 269 shall: sail 
 V. ii. 283 wat: vat 
 
APPENDIX D 
 Suggestions for Collateral Reading 
 
 Thomas Carlyle in Heroes and Hero-worship 
 (1840). The Hero as Poet. 
 
 Edward Dowden in Shakspere: His Mind and Art 
 (1875). Chapter IV. 
 
 Beverly E. Warner in English History in Shake- 
 speare's Plays (1894). Chapter V. 
 
 William Butler Yeats in Ideas of Good and Evil 
 (1903). Essay entitled At Stratford-on-Avon. 
 
 John Masefield in William Shakespeare (1911). 
 Henry V. 
 
 J. W. Cunliffe: The Character of Henry V. as 
 Prince and King (1916). In Shaksperian Studies, 
 Columbia University Press, 1916, pp. 313-331. 
 
INDEX OF WORDS GLOSSED 
 
 (Figures in full-faced type refer to page-numbers) 
 
 a': 31 (II. iii. 11) 
 absolute: 61 (III. vii. 27) 
 abutting: 1 (I. Chor. 21) 
 accept: 111 (V. ii. 82) 
 accomplishing: 66 (IV. 
 
 Chor. 12) 
 accompt: 1 (I. Chor. 17) 
 accord: 26 (II. ii. 86) 
 achieve: 85 (IV. iii. 91) 
 addition: 120 (V. ii. 367) 
 addrest: 48 (III. iii. 58) 
 admiration: 27 (II. ii. 108) 
 advance: 30 (II. ii. 192) 
 advantages: 83 (IV. iii. 50) 
 advice, his more: 25 (II. ii. 
 
 43) 
 advis'd, be: 14 (I. ii. 251) 
 affiance: 28 (II. ii. 127) 
 alarum: 39 (III. Chor. S. d.) 
 all proportion of subjection: 
 
 73 (IV. i. 154, 155) 
 an (if): 22 (II. i. 107) 
 an (as if): 31 (II. iii. 11) 
 ancient: 18 (II. i. 3) 
 antics: 42 (III. ii. 34) 
 apprehension: 65 (III. vii. 
 
 150) 
 approbation: 6 (I. ii. 19) 
 apt: 26 (II. ii. 86) 
 arbitrement: 73 (IV. i. 170) 
 argument (subject of con- 
 tention): 40 (III. i. 21) 
 argument (theme): 61 (III. 
 
 vii. 37) 
 argument (business) : 73 
 
 (IV. i. 151) 
 art: 4 (I. i. 51) 
 as: 44 (III. ii. 78) 
 
 as may unworthiness de- 
 fine: 67 (IV. Chor. 46) 
 assays: 11 (I. ii. 151) 
 astonished: 106 (V. i. 40) 
 at one: 114 (V. ii. 203, 204) 
 attest: 1 (I. Chor. 16) 
 avouch: 107 (V. i. 77) 
 avouchment: 99 (IV. viii. 
 
 38) 
 awkward: 36 (II. iv. 85) 
 
 ball: 77 (IV. i. 280) 
 balm: 77 (IV. i. 280) 
 bar: 109 (V. ii. 27) 
 Barbason: 20 (II. i. 57) 
 barley-broth: 51 (III. v. 19) 
 Bartholomew-tide: 119 (V. 
 
 ii. 335) 
 basilisks: 108 (V. ii. 17) 
 battle (army): 66 (IV. 
 
 Chor. 9) 
 battle (battle lines): 81 
 
 (IV. iii. 2) 
 bawcock: 42 (III. ii. 27) 
 beadle: 74 (IV. i. 180) 
 beaver: 80 (IV. ii. 44) 
 become: 6 (I. ii. 8) 
 bedlam: 105 (V. i. 20) 
 bent: 108 (V. ii. 16) 
 beseeched: 45 (III. ii. 119) 
 beshrew: 116 (V. ii. 240) 
 best indu'd: 28 (II. ii. 139) 
 bestow yourself: 84 (IV. iii. 
 
 68) 
 blood: 28 (II. ii. 133) 
 blown: 59 (III. vi. 164) 
 bolted: 28 (II. ii. 137) 
 book: 94 (IV. vii. 77) 
 
Henry the Fifth 
 
 143 
 
 bootless: 47 (III. iii. 24) 
 bound my horse: 113 (V. ii. 
 
 145) 
 bowels, in the: 37 (II. iv. 
 
 102) 
 brave: 38 (III. Chor. 5) 
 bravely: 84 (IV. iii. 69) 
 break: 116 (V. ii. 264) 
 breath: 38 (II. iv. 145) 
 bring: 30 (II. iii. 2) 
 broached: 104 (V. Chor. 32) 
 broken music: 116 (V. ii. 
 
 262) 
 bubukles: 57 (III. vi. Ill) 
 buffet: 113 (V. ii. 145) 
 bully: 69 (IV. i. 48) 
 but: 51 (III. v. 12) 
 but in purged judgment: 28 
 
 (II. ii. 136) 
 buxom: 54 (III. vi. 27) 
 by and by: 23 (II. ii. 2) 
 
 Cadwallader: 105 (V. i. 29) 
 capital: 111 (V. ii. 96) 
 careers: 23 (II. i. 133) 
 careful: 76 (IV. i. 251) 
 carefully, more than: 33 (II. 
 
 iv. 2) 
 carry coals: 43 (III. ii. 51) 
 case: 41 (III. ii. 5) 
 casted slough: 68 (IV. i. 23) 
 cause of policv: 4 (I. i. 45) 
 caveto: 32 (II. iii. 56) 
 ceremonies: 71 (IV. i. 110) 
 chaces: 15 (I. ii. 266) 
 chambers: 39 (III. Chor. 
 
 S. d.) 
 charge: 6 (I. ii. 15) 
 Charlemain: 8 (I. ii. 75) 
 Charles the Great: 7 (I. ii. 
 
 46) 
 charter'd: 4 (I. i. 48) 
 che vous la: 69 (IV. i. 35) 
 Cheshu: 43 (III. ii. 69) 
 chez: 60 (III. vii. 15) 
 Chorus: 2 (I. Chor. 32) 
 christom: 31 (II. iii. 12) 
 
 chuck: 42 (III. ii. 27) 
 
 civil: 13 (I. ii. 199) 
 
 clear thv crystals: 32 (II. 
 
 iii. 57) 
 close: 12 (I. ii. 182) 
 closet: 115 (V. ii. 210) 
 comes o'er: 15 (I. ii. 267) 
 companies: 4 (I. i. 55) 
 compassing: 78 (IV. i. 314) 
 complement: 28 (II. ii. 134) 
 compound (decide) : 22 (II. 
 
 i. 103) 
 compound (come to terms) : 
 
 84 (IV. iii. 80) 
 condition: 107 (V. i. 84) 
 condole: 23 (II. i. 134) 
 confounded: 40 (III. i. 13) 
 congreeing: 12 (I. ii. 182) 
 congreeted: 109 (V. ii. 31) 
 conscience: 72 (IV. i. 124) 
 consent: 12 (I. ii. 181) 
 consideration: 3 (I. i. 28) 
 consign: 111 (V. ii. 90) 
 contemplation: 4 (I. i. 63) 
 contrived: 73 (IV. i. 173) 
 convey'd: 8 (I. ii. 74) 
 convoy: 83 (IV. iii. 37) 
 copy: 40 (III. i. 24) 
 corantos: 52 (III. v. 33) 
 couch: 80 (IV. ii. 37) 
 coulter: 109 (V. ii. 46) 
 couple a gorge: 21 (II. i. 
 
 75) 
 coursing: 11 (I. ii. 143) 
 cousin: 6 (I. ii. 4) 
 coxcomb: 106 (V. i. 45) 
 coz: 82 (IV. iii. 30) 
 crescive in his faculty: 4 
 
 (I. i. 66) 
 Crispian, feast of: 83 (IV. 
 
 iii. 40) 
 crush'd: 12 (I. ii. 175) 
 cue, upon our: 58 (III. vi. 
 
 134) 
 cullions: 42 (III. ii. 23) 
 cunning: 113 (V. ii. 149) 
 currance: 3 (I. i. 34) 
 
144 
 
 The Life of 
 
 cursorary: 110 (V. ii. 77) 
 curtains: 80 (IV. ii. 41) 
 curtal-axe: 80 (IV. ii. 21) 
 curtsy: 117 (V. ii. 291) 
 
 dare: 80 (IV. ii. 36) 
 darnel: 109 (V. ii. 45) 
 dear: 30 (II. ii. 181) 
 decoct: 52 (III. v. 20) 
 defensible: 48 (III. iii. 50) 
 defunction: 8 (I. ii. 58) 
 deliver: 59 (III. vi. 179) 
 deracinate: 109 (V. ii. 47) 
 desire: 68 (IV. i. 27) 
 diffus'd: 110 (V. ii. 61) 
 discover'd: 29 (II. ii. 151) 
 discuss: 43 (III. ii. 67) 
 dishonest: 7 (I. ii. 49) 
 distressful: 77 (IV. i. 290) 
 dout: 79 (IV. ii. 11) 
 down-roping: 81 (IV. ii. 48) 
 drench: 51 (III. v. 19) 
 dress us: 68 (IV. i. 10) 
 
 earnest: 29 (II. ii. 169) 
 elder-gun: 75 (IV. i. 213) 
 element: 71 (IV. i. 108) 
 embassy: 5 (I. i. 95) 
 empery: 13 (I. ii. 226) 
 emptying: 51 (III. v. 6) 
 England: 33 (II. iv. 9) 
 englutted: 84 (IV. iii. 83) 
 enlarge: 25 (II. ii. 40) 
 enlink'd to: 47 (III. iii. 18) 
 enrounded: 67 (IV. Chor. 
 
 36) 
 enschedul'd: 110 (V. ii. 73) 
 estate: 71 (IV. i. 100) 
 even of it: 23 (II. i. 128) 
 even-pleach'd: 109 (V. ii. 
 
 42) 
 evenly deriv'd: 36 (II. iv. 
 
 91) 
 exception: 34 (II. iv. 34) 
 excursions: 86 (IV. iv. S. d.) 
 executors: 13 (I. ii. 203) 
 exhale: 20 (II. i. 66) 
 
 exhibiters: 5 (I. i. 74) 
 expedience: 84 (IV. iii. 70) 
 expedition: 30 (II. ii. 191) 
 
 faced out of my way: 63 
 
 (III. vii. 95) 
 fair time of day: 108 (V. 
 
 ii. 3) 
 fall: 113 (V. ii. 167) 
 farced: 77 (IV. i. 283) 
 fatal and neglected: 33 (II. 
 
 iv. 13) 
 fate: 35 (II. iv. 64) 
 favour: 110 (V. ii. 63) 
 fear'd: 11 (I. ii. 155) 
 fell feats: 47 (III. iii. 17) 
 fellow with: 116 (V. ii. 260) 
 ferret: 87 (IV. iv. 30) 
 fet: 40 (III. i. 18) 
 figo: 55 (III. vi. 60) 
 figures: 93 (IV. vii. 35) 
 find: 8 (I. ii. 72) 
 fin'd: 94 (IV. vii. 73) 
 firk: 87 (IV. iv. 29) 
 flesh'd: 47 (III. iii. 11) 
 flesh'd, been: 35 (II. iv. 50) 
 floods: 7 (I. ii. 45) 
 nourish: 17 (II. Chor. S. d.) 
 flower-de-luce: 115 (V. ii. 
 
 223) 
 for (for want of) : 10 (I. ii. 
 
 114) 
 for (instead of): 53 (III. v. 
 
 60) 
 fore-hand: 77 (IV. i. 300) 
 forespent: 34 (II. iv. 36) 
 fox: 87 (IV. iv. 9) 
 fracted: 23 (II. i. 130) 
 France: 17 (II. Chor. 20) 
 freely: 14 (I. ii. 231) 
 French hose: 62 (III. vii. 59, 
 
 60) 
 from: 56 (III. vi. 94) 
 from the answer of his de- 
 gree: 96 (IV. vii. 143) 
 full-fraught: 28 (II. ii. 139) 
 fumitory: 109 (V. ii. 45) 
 
Henry the Fifth 
 
 145 
 
 gage: 75 (IV. i. 226) 
 galled: 40 (III. i. 12) 
 galliard: 15 (I. ii. 252) 
 galling: 107 (V. i. 78) 
 garb: 107 (V. i. 81) 
 gentle his condition: 84 (IV. 
 
 iii. 63) 
 gesture: 66 (IV. Chor. 25) 
 giddy: 11 (I. ii. 145) 
 gilt: 18 (II. Chor. 26) 
 gimmal'd: 81 (IV. ii. 49) 
 gipes: 93 (IV. vii. 53) 
 girded: 39 (III. Chor. 27) 
 gleeking: 107 (V. i. 78) 
 glistering: 28 (II. ii. 117) 
 gloze: 7 (I. ii. 40) 
 go about: 75 (IV. i. 215) 
 go to hazard: 63 (III. vii. 
 
 98) 
 God before: 16 (I. ii. 307) 
 God-den: 44 (III. ii. 93) 
 good sort: 101 (IV. viii. 80) 
 grace of kings: 18 (II. 
 
 Chor. 28) 
 grandfather: 95 (IV. vii. 
 
 96) 
 grant: 103 (V. Chor. 7) 
 great sort: 96 (IV. vii. 143) 
 greener: 38 (II. iv. 136) 
 greenly: 113 (V. ii. 148) 
 groat: 106 (V. i. 62) 
 grosslv: 27 (II. ii. 107) 
 gulf: 33 (II. iv. 10) 
 gull: 56 (III. vi. 72) 
 gun-stones: 16 (I. ii. 
 
 habit: 57 (III. vi. 124) 
 had: 77 (IV. i. 300) 
 haggled: 91 (IV. vi. 11) 
 Hampton: 27 (II. ii. 91) 
 handle: 32 (II. iii. 39) 
 hard-favour'd: 40 (III. i. 8) 
 hazard: 15 (I. ii. 263) 
 head, in: 24 (II. ii. 18) 
 heady: 3 (I. i. 34) ; 47 (III. 
 
 iii. 32) 
 hearts: 78 (IV. i. 312) 
 
 help Hyperion to his horse: 
 
 77 (IV. i. 295) 
 hilding: 80 (IV. ii. 29) 
 his: 3(1. i. 36) 
 honour-owing: 91 (IV. vi. 9) 
 housewifery: 33 (II. iii. 66) 
 humorous: 34 (II. iv. 28) 
 huswife: 107 (V. i. 85) 
 Hydra-headed: 3 (I. i. 35) 
 
 imaginary: 1 (I. Chor. 18) 
 imagin'd wing: 38 (III. 
 
 Chor. 1) 
 imp: 69 (IV. i. 45) 
 impawn: 7 (I. ii. 21) 
 impeachment: 59 (III. vi. 
 
 154) 
 impounded: 11 (I. ii. 160) 
 in few: 14 (I. ii. 245) 
 in fresher robes: 86 (IV. iii. 
 
 117) 
 in lieu of: 15 (I. ii. 255) 
 indirectly: 36 (II. iv. 94) 
 instance: 28 (II. ii. 119) 
 intelligence: 17 (II. Chor. 
 
 12) 
 intendment: 11 (I. ii. 144) 
 intertissued: 77 (IV. i. 282) 
 investing: 66 (IV. Chor. 26) 
 irreconciled: 73 (IV. i. 162) 
 is come after: 93 (IV. vii. 
 
 34, 35) 
 is pear: 99 (IV. viii. 37) 
 issue: 91 (IV. vi. 34) 
 it: 109 (V. ii. 40) 
 
 jack-an-apes: 113 (V. ii. 
 
 147) 
 Jack-sauce: 97 (IV. vii. 149) 
 jades: 51 (III. v. 19) 
 jealousy: 28 (II. ii. 126) 
 Jewry: 48 (III. iii. 40) 
 just notice: 96 (IV. vii. 123) 
 jutty: 40 (III. i. 13) 
 
 kecksies: 109 (V. ii. 52) 
 kern: 62 (III. vii. 59) 
 
146 
 
 The Life of 
 
 kind: 17 (II. Chor. 19) 
 kinsman: 70 (IV. i. 59) 
 
 Lady: 20 (II. i. 38) 
 larding: 91 (IV. vi. 8) 
 late commissioners, the: 26 
 
 (II. ii. 61) 
 lavoltas: 52 (III. v. 33) 
 layer-up: 116 (V. ii. 247) 
 lazars: 3 (I. i. 15) 
 leas: 109 (V. ii. 44) 
 legerity: 68 (IV. i. 23) 
 let: 110 (V. ii. 65) 
 lewis his: 9 (I. ii. 88) 
 li«r: 45 (III. ii. 128) 
 like (adj.): 2 (I. i. 3) 
 like (adv.): 30 (II. ii. 183) 
 likes: 39 (III. Chor. 39) 
 line (vb.): 33 (II. iv. 7) 
 line (n.): 36 (II. iv. 88) 
 lineal: 9 (I. ii. 82) 
 linstock: 39 (III. Chor. 33) 
 list (vb.): 3 (I. i. 43) 
 list (n.): 117 (V. ii. 293) 
 lob down: 81 (IV. ii. 47) 
 lodging: 61 (III. vii. 34) 
 'long: 36 (II. iv. 80) 
 love: 97 (IV. vii. 167) 
 lowliness: 100 (IV. viii. 55) 
 luxurious: 87 (IV. iv. 20) 
 luxury: 51 (III. v. 6) 
 
 make boot upon: 12 (I. ii. 
 
 194) 
 man: 42 (III. ii. 33) 
 marches: 11 (I. ii. 140) 
 marry: 45 (III. ii. 115) 
 masters: 38 (II. iv. 137) 
 measure: 112 (V. ii. 138) 
 meeter: 15 (I. ii. 254) 
 member: 77 (IV. i. 301) 
 men of mould: 42 (III. ii. 
 
 24) 
 mervailous: 20 (II. i. 50) 
 mess: 45 (III. ii. 126) 
 mettle of your pasture: 41 
 
 (III. i. 27) 
 
 mickle might: 21 (II. i. 70) 
 minding: 67 (IV. Chor. 53) 
 miscarry: 73 (IV. i. 157) 
 miscreate: 6 (I. ii. 16) 
 moiety: 115 (V. ii. 228) 
 mortality: 7 (I. ii. 28) 
 mortified: 3 (I. i. 26) 
 mountain: 35 (II. iv. 57) 
 
 name: 102 (TV. viii. 110) 
 native: 73 (IV. i. 178) 
 neighbourhood: 120 (V. ii. 
 
 381) 
 nicely: 6 (I. ii. 15) 
 noble: 22 (II. i. 112) 
 nook-shotten : 51 (III. v. 
 
 14) 
 
 odds: 38 (II. iv. 129) 
 o'erblows: 47 (III. iii. 31) 
 o'erwhelm: 40 (III. i. 11) 
 of (against) : 31 (II. iii. 29) 
 of (for): 48 (III. iii. 45) 
 of (from): 58 (III. vi. 125) 
 on heaps: 90 (IV. v. 18) 
 opening: 6 (I. ii. 16) 
 or: 6 (I. ii. 12); 13 (I. ii. 
 
 225) 
 order: 104 (V. Chor. 39) 
 orisons: 25 (II. ii. 53) 
 ostent: 103 (V. Chor. 21) 
 out of doubt: 68 (IV. i. 20) 
 out of his knowledge: 64 
 
 (III. vii. 149) 
 outwear: 81 (IV. ii. 63) 
 over-lusty: 66 (IV. Chor. 
 
 18) 
 overbears attaint: 67 (IV. 
 
 Chor. 39) 
 overlook: 51 (III. v. 9) 
 overshot: 64 (III. vii. 139) 
 
 paction: 121 (V. ii. 393) 
 pales in: 103 (V. Chor. 10) 
 Parca: 105 (V. i. 21) 
 parle: 47 (III. iii. 2) 
 
Henry the Fifth 
 
 147 
 
 parts (musical) : 12 (I. ii. 
 
 181) 
 parts (sides): 96 (IV. vii. 
 
 124) 
 pass: 18 (II. Chor. 39) 
 passages (lines of succes- 
 sion) : 5 (I. i. 86) 
 passages (deeds) : 57 (III. 
 
 vi. 100) 
 pauca: 21 (II. i. 83) 
 pax: 55 (III. vi. 42) 
 pay: 74 (IV. i. 212) 
 peasant best advantages: 
 
 77 (IV. i. 304) 
 peer: 95 (IV. vii. 89) 
 peevish: 64 (III. vii. 147) 
 perdition: 57 (III. vi. 106) 
 perdurable: 89 (IV. v. 7) 
 perdy: 20 (II. i. 52) 
 peremptory: 111 (V. ii. 82) 
 perpend: 87 (IV. iv. 8) 
 perspectively: 119 (V. ii 
 
 347) 
 Pharamond: 7 (I. ii. 37) 
 pioners: 44 (III. ii. 96) 
 pitch and pay: 32 (II. iii. 
 
 52) 
 plain-song: 41 (III. ii. 6) 
 play: 66 (IV. Chor. 19) 
 pleasant: 15 (I. ii. 259) 
 policy (wisdom): 13 (I. ii. 
 
 220) 
 policy (trickery): 17 (II. 
 
 Chor. 14) 
 popular: 69 (IV. i. 38) 
 popularity: 4 (I. i. 59) 
 poring: 66 (IV. Chor. 2) 
 port: 1(1. Chor. 6) 
 portage: 40 (III. i. 10) 
 possess: 72 (IV. i. 116) 
 powdering-tub : 21 (II. i. 
 
 79) 
 powers: 24 (II. ii. 15) 
 prabbles: 100 (IV. viii. 69) 
 practic: 4 (I. i. 51) 
 preed no contention: 105 
 (V. i. 11, 12) 
 
 preposterously: 27 (II. ii. 
 
 112) 
 prescript: 61 (III. vii. 51) 
 present: 35 (II. iv. 67) 
 presentlv: 21 (II. i. 92) 
 prey, in: 12 (I. ii. 169) 
 proceeding on distemper: 
 
 25 (II. ii. 54) 
 projection: 35 (II. iv. 46> 
 proportion: 27 (II. ii. 109) 
 proportions: 10 (I. ii. 137); 
 
 16 (I. ii. 304) 
 puissant: 10 (I. ii. 116) 
 purchase: 43 (III. ii. 46) 
 
 quality: 58 (III. vi. 149) 
 Qualtitie calmie custure me: 
 
 87 (IV. iv. 4) 
 question: 2 (I. i. 5) 
 quick: 26 (II. ii. 79) 
 quit: 29 (II. ii. 166) 
 quittance: 25 (II. ii. 34) 
 quotidian tertian: 23 (II. i. 
 
 124) 
 
 raueht: 91 (IV. vi. 21) 
 rawly: 73 (IV. i. 149) 
 re-answer: 58 (III. vi. 140) 
 reduce: 110 (V. ii. 63) 
 relapse of mortality: 85 
 
 (IV. iii. 107) 
 relish: 71 (IV. i. 115) 
 requiring: 37 (II. iv. 101) 
 resolved of: 6 (I. ii. 4) 
 respect: 107 (V. i. 75) 
 rest: 19 (II. i. 17) 
 returns: 48 (III. iii. 46) 
 rheumatic: 32 (II. iii. 40) 
 rim: 87 (IV. iv. 15) 
 rivage: 39 (III. Chor. 14) 
 road: 10 (I. ii. 138) 
 Roan: 53 (III. v. 54) 
 robustious: 65 (III. vii. 164) 
 roping: 52 (III. v. 23) 
 round: 75 (IV. i. 219) 
 rub: 30 (II. ii. 188) 
 
148 
 
 The Life of 
 
 sa': 45 (III. ii. 122) 
 sack: 31 (II. iii. 29) 
 sad-ey'd: 13 (I. ii. 202) 
 Saint Davy's day: 69 (IV. 
 
 i. 55) 
 Saint Denis: 114 (V. ii. 192) 
 Salique: 6 (I. ii. 11) 
 sand: 71 (IV. i. 101) 
 'Sblood: 98 (IV. viii. 9) 
 scaffold: 1 (I. Chor. 10) 
 scald: 104 (V. i. 5) 
 scambling (adj.): 2 (I. i. 
 
 4) 
 scambling (n.) : 115 (V. ii. 
 
 217) 
 sconce: 56 (III. vi. 78) 
 seat: 15 (I. ii. 269) 
 second accent: 37 (II. iv. 
 
 126) 
 self: 2 (I. i. 1) 
 sennet: 121 (V. ii. 402 S. d.) 
 senses: 32 (II. iii. 52) 
 sequestration: 4 (I. i. 58) 
 set: 18 (II. Chor. 34) 
 severals: 5 (I. i. 86) 
 shales: 79 (IV. ii. 18) 
 shog: 20 (II. i. 47) 
 show: 28 (II. ii. 127) 
 shows: 71 (IV. i. 108) 
 shrewdly: 61 (III. vii. 55) 
 signal: 103 (V. Chor. 21) 
 signs: 30 (II. ii. 192) 
 sinister: 36 (II. iv. 85) 
 skirr: 94 (IV. vii. 65) 
 slips, in the: 41 (III. i. 31) 
 slovenry: 85 (IV. iii. 114) 
 snatchers: 11 (I. ii. 143) 
 sooth: 59 (III. vi. 154) 
 sort: 104 (V. Chor. 25) 
 sorts: 12 (I. ii. 190) 
 speculation: 80 (IV. ii. 31) 
 speed, be my: 114 (V. ii. 
 
 193) 
 spiritualty: 10 (I. ii. 132) 
 spital: 21 (II. i. 78) 
 sprays: 51 (III. v. 5) 
 Staines: 30 (II. iii. 2) 
 
 starts: 121 (Epil. 4) 
 sternage, to: 39 (III. Chor. 
 
 18) 
 Still: 11 (I. ii. 145) ; 78 (IV. 
 
 i. 322) 
 stilly: 66 (IV. Chor. 5) 
 stood on: 56 (III. vi. 80) 
 stoop: 71 (IV. i. 113) 
 straight: 30 (II. ii. 191) 
 straight strossers: 62 (III. 
 
 vii. 60) 
 subscribed: 120 (V. ii. 363) 
 suddenly: 111 (V. ii. 81) 
 sufferance, by his: 25 (II. ii. 
 
 46) 
 sufferance, in: 29 (II. ii. 
 
 159) 
 suggest: 27 (II. ii. 114) 
 supply, for the which: 2 (I. 
 
 Chor. 31) 
 sur-rein'd: 51 (III. v. 19) 
 sutler: 22 (II. i. 116) 
 swashers: 42 (III. ii. 31) 
 swill'd with: 40 (III. i. 14) 
 sympathize with: 65 (III. 
 
 vii. 163) 
 
 take: 20 (II. i. 55) 
 tall: 21 (II. i. 72) 
 Tartar: 28 (II. ii. 123) 
 task: 6 (I. ii. 6) 
 Tavy's: 95 (IV. vii. 109) 
 temper: 113 (V. ii. 152) 
 temper'd: 28 (II. ii. 118) 
 tender: 30 (II. ii. 175) 
 tenours: 110 (V. ii. 72) 
 terms: 100 (IV. viii. 43) 
 that: 4 (I. i. 47) 
 them: 9 (I. ii. 93) 
 theoric: 4 (I. i. 52) 
 tike: 19 (II. i. 31) 
 to: 62 (III. vii. 65) 
 toward: 98 (IV. viii. 4) 
 troth-plight: 19 (II. i. 21) 
 Troyan: 105 (V. i. 20) 
 trumpet: 81 (IV. ii. 61) 
 
Henry the Fifth 
 
 149 
 
 tucket: 57 (III. vi. 123 
 
 S. d.) 
 tucket sonance: 80 (IV. ii. 
 
 35) 
 tun: 15 (I. ii. 255) 
 tway: 45 (III. ii. 132) 
 
 umber'd: 66 (IV. Chor. 9) 
 uncoined constancy: 113 (V. 
 
 ii. 160) 
 undid: 112 (V. ii. 137) 
 unfurnish'd: 11 (I. ii. 148) 
 ungotten: 16 (I. ii. 287) 
 unprovided: 74 (IV. i. 186) 
 unraised: 1 (I. Chor. 9) 
 untempering: 116 (V. ii. 
 
 239) 
 unto the practices: 27 (II. 
 
 ii. 90) 
 upon: 5 (I. i. 76) 
 upon example: 68 (IV. i. 19) 
 upon our part: 5 (I. i. 73) 
 
 vantage, of: 59 (III. vi. 156) 
 vasty: 1 (I. Chor. 12) 
 vaultages: 37 (II. iv. 124) 
 vaward: 86 (IV. iii. 130) 
 very casques, the: 1(1. Chor. 
 
 13) 
 via: 79 (IV. ii. 4) 
 
 view: 109 (V. ii. 32) 
 vigil: 83 (IV. iii. 45) 
 vile: 83 (IV. iii. 62) 
 voice: 27 (II. ii. 113) 
 void his rheum: 53 (III. v. 
 
 52) 
 void: 94 (IV. vii. 63) 
 vulgar: 94 (IV. vii. 81) 
 
 wafer-cakes: 32 (II. iii. 54) 
 war-proof: 40 (III. i. 18) 
 waxen: 14 (I. ii. 233) 
 whelks: 57 (III. vi. Ill) 
 whiffler: 103 (V. Chor. 12) 
 Whitsun morris-dance: 34 
 
 (II. iv. 25) 
 wink: 19 (II. i. 8) 
 withal (with): 5 (I. i. 81) 
 withal (therewith): 13 (I. 
 
 ii. 216); 34 (II. iv. 34) 
 womby: 37 (II. iv. 124) 
 word: 32 (II. iii. 52) 
 worshipp'd: 14 (I. ii. 233) 
 would: 17 (II. Chor. 18) 
 wrack: 11 (I. ii. 165) 
 wrest: 6 (I. ii. 14) 
 wringing: 76 (IV. i. 256) 
 
 yearn: 30 (II. iii. 3) 
 yerk: 94 (IV. vii. 84) 
 
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