have Until this instant.-Take a trumpet, herald;
Ride thou unto the horsemen on yon hill;
If they will fight with us, bid them come dowa,
Or void the field; they do offend our sight:
If they'll do neither, we will come to them;
And inake 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,
Shall taste our mercy :-Go, and tell them so.

and myself were down together, I plucked this
glove from his belm: if any man challenge this,
he is a friend to Alençon and an enemy to our
person; if thou encounter any such, apprehend
him, an thou dost love me.

Flu. Your grace does me as great honours,
as can be desired in the hearts of his subjects:
would fain see the man, that has but two
legs, that shall find himself aggriefed at this
glove, that is all; but I would fain see it
once; an please Got of his grace, that I night
see it.

KING HENRY V.

Scene III.

For yet a many of your horseman peer,
And gallop o'er the field.

Mont. The day is your's.

K. llen. Praised be God, and not our strength,
for it!-

What is this castle call'd, that stands hard by ↑
Mont. They call it-Agincourt.
.K. Hen. Then call we this-the field of Agin-I
court,

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 ebronicles, fought a most prave pattle here in France.

K. Hen. Knowest thon Gower?

Flu. He is my dear friend, an please you.
K. Hen. Pray thee, go seek him, and bring
him to my tent.

K. Hen. They did, Fluellen.

Flu. I will fetch him.

[Exit.

K. Hen. My lord of Warwick, and my brother
Gloster,

Flu. Your majesty says very true: If your ma-
jesties is remembered of it, the Welshman did
goot service in a garden where leeks did grow,
wearing leeks in their Monmouth caps; which,
your majesty knows, to this hour is an honour-The glove, which I have given him for a favour,
able padge of the service; and, I do believe, May, haply, purchase him a box o'the ear;
Follow, good cousin War-
your majesty takes no scorn to wear leek upon It is the soldier's: I, by bargain, should
Wear it myself.
Saint Tavy's day.

...

Follow Fluellen closely at the heels:

K. Hen. I wear it for a memorable honour: For I am Welsh, you know, good countryman.

Flu. All the water in Wye cannot wash your majesty's Welsh plood out of your pody, I can tell you that: Got pless it and preserve it, as long as it pleases his grace, and his majesty |

too!

K. Hen. Thanks, good my countryman. Flu. By Cheshu, I am your majesty's country. man, I care not who know it; I will confess it to all the 'orld: I need not to be ashamed of your majesty, praised be God, so long as your majesty

is an honest man.

K. Hen. God keep me so !-Our heralds go
with him;

Bring me just notice of the numbers dead
On both our parts--Call yonder fellow hither.
[Points to WILLIAMS. Exeunt MONTJOY
and others.

wick: If that the soldier strike him, (as, I judge By his blunt bearing, he will keep his word,) Some sudden mischief may arise of it; For I do know Fluellen valiant, And, touch'd with choler, hot as gunpowder, And quickly will return an injury: Follow, and see there be no harm between them.[Exeunt. SCENE VIII.-Before King HENRY's Pa

Go you with me, uncle of Exeter.

Ere. Soldier, you must come to the king. K. Hen. Soldier, why wear'st thou that glove in thy cap!

Will. An't please your majesty, 'tis the gage of one that I should fight withal, if he be alive.

K. Hen. An Englishman?

vilon.

Enter GoWER and WILLIAMS.
Will. I warrant it is to knight you, captain.
Enter FLUELLEN.

Flu. Got's will and his pleasure, captain, I
peseech you now, come apace to the king: there
in your knowledge to dream of.
is more goot toward you, peradventure, than is

Will. Sir, know you this glove?

Flu. Know the glove? I know the glove is a glove. Will. I know this; and thus I challenge it. [Strikes him. Flu. 'Sblud, an arrant traitor, as any's in the Gow. How now, Sir? you villain ! universal 'orld, or in France, or in England. Will. Do you think I'll be forsworn? I will Flu. Stand away, captain Gower; give treason his payment into plows, I warrant

you.

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 ace my glove in bis cap, (which he swore, as he was a soldier, he would wear, if alive,) I will strike it out soundly.

K. Hen. What think you, captain Fluellen; is it fit this soldier keep his vath ?

Flu. He is a craven and a villain else, an't please your majesty, in my conscience.

K. Hen. It may be, his enemy is a gentleman of great sort, quite from the answer of his degree.

Will. I am no traitor.

Flu. That's a lie in thy throat.-I charge you in his majesty's name, apprehend him; lie's a friend of the duke of Alençon's.

Enter WARWICK and GLOSTER. War. How now, how now! what's the matter?

Flu. Though he be as goot a gentleman as the tevil is, as Lucifer and Belzebub himself, Flu. My lord of Warwick, here is (praised It 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, be Got for it!) a most contagions treason come and a Jack-sauce, as ever bis plack shoe trod to light, look you, as you shall desire in a sum tion Got's ground and his earth, in my consci-mer's day. Here is his majesty.

ence, la.

+ High rank. 1 For saucy Jack.

K. Hen. Then keep thy vow, sirrah, when thou inet'st the fellow.

Enter King HENRY and EXETER.

K. Hen. How now! what's the matter? Flu. My liege, here is a villain and a traitor, that, look your grace, has struck the glove which your majesty is take out of the helmet of

Will. So I will, my liege, as I live.
K. Hen. Who servest thou under?
Hill. Under captain Gower, my liege.

Fla. Gower is a goot captain; and is good Alençon.
Anowledge and literature in the wars.

K. Hen. Call him bither to me, soldier.
IWILL. I will, my liege.

(Erit. K. Hen. Here, Fluellen; wear thou this favour for me, and stick it in thy cap: When Alençon

• Coward.

Will. My liege, this was my glove; here is the fellow of it and he, that I gave it to in change, promised to wear it in his cap; I pro. mised to strike him, if he did I met this man good as my word. with my glove in his cap, and I have been as

Flu. Your majesty hear now, (saving your majesty's manhood,) what an arrant, raseally,

beggarly, lowsy knave it is: I hope, your ma- Beaumont and
jesty is pear me testimony, and witness, and
avouchments, that this is the glove of Alençon,
that your majesty gave me, in your conscience

Here was a roy
Where is the i

now.

K. Hen. Give me thy glove, soldier: Look, here is the fellow of it. 'Twas I, indeed, thou promised'st to strike; and thou hast given me most bitter terms.

Flu. An please your majesty, let his neck answer for it, if there is any martial law in the 'orld.

K. Hen. How canst thou make me satisfaction ?

Will. All offences, my liege, come from the heart: never came any from mine, that might offend your majesty.

K. Hen. It was ourself thou didst abuse. Will. Your majesty came not like yourself: you appeared to me but as a common mau; witness the night, your garments, your lowliness; and what your highness suffered under that shape, I beseech you take it for your own fault, and not mine: for had you been as I took you for, 1 made no offence; therefore, I beseech your highness, pardon me.

K. Hen. Here, uncle Exeter, fill this glove
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 :And, captain, you must needs be friends with him.

Flu. By this day and this light, the fellow has mettle enough in his pelly:-Hold, there is twelve pence for you, and I pray yon to serve Got, and keep you out of prawls, and prabbles, and quarrels, and dissensions, and, I warrant you, it is the petter for you.

Will. I will none of your money.

Flu. It is with a goot will; I can tell you, it will serve you to mend your shoes: Come, wherefore should you be so pashful? your shoes is not so goot: 'tis a goot silling, I warrant you, change it.

or

Enter an English HERALD.

K. Hen. Now, herald; are the dead num-
ber'd?

Her. Here is the number of the slaughter'd
French.
[Delivers a Paper.
K. Hen. What prisoners of good sort are
taken, uncle?

Etc. Charles duke of Orleans, nephew to the
king;

John duke of Bourbon, and lord Bonciqualt: of other lords and barons, knights and squires, Full fifteen hundred, besides common men.

K. Hen. This note doth tell me of ten thousand French,

That in the field lie slain of princes, in this number,

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Flu. Eat, I pray you: Will you have some more sauce to your Icek? there is not enough leak to swear by.

Pist. Quit thy cudgel; thou dost see 1 cat. Flu. Much goot do you, scald kuave, heartily. Nay, 'pray you, throw none away; the skin is goot for your proken coxcomb. When you take occasions to see leeks hereafter, I pray you, mock at them; that is all.

Pist. Good.

Flu. Ay, leeks is goot :-Hold you, there is a great to heal your pate.

Pist. Me a groat!

Pist. Yes, verily, and in truth, you shall take it; or I have another leek in my pocket, which you shall eat.

Pist. I take thy groat, in earnest of revenge. Flu. If I owe you any thing, I will pay you in cudgels; you shall be a woodmonger, and buy nothing of me but cudgels. God be wi' you, [Exit. and keep you, and heal your pate.

Enter FLUELLEN and GOWER.

Pist. All hell shall stir for this.

Gow. Go, go; you are a counterfeit cowardly Gow. Nay, that's right; but why wear you knave. Will you mock at an ancient tradition, your leek to-day? Saint Davy's day is past. Fla. There is occasions and causes why and-begun upon au honourable respect, and worn wherefore in all things: I will tell you, as my as a memorable trophy of predeceased valour,friend, captain Gower; The rascally, scald, beg-and dare not avouch in your deeds any of your garly, lowsy, pragging knave, Pistol, which you words? I have seen you gleeking⚫ and galling at and yourself, and all the 'orld, know to be no this gentleman twice or thrice. You thought, petter than a fellow, look you now, of no me because he could not speak English in the na rits, he is come to me, and prings me pread tive garb, he could not therefore handle au Eu and salt yesterday, look you, and bid me eat glish cudgel: you find it otherwise; and hencemy leek it was in a place where I could not forth let a Welsh correction teach you a good breed no contentions with him; but I will be English condition. + Fare ye well. so pold as to wear it in my cap till I see him ence again, and then I will tell him a little piece of my desires.

Scene I.

To welcome bim? much more, and much more cause,

Did they this Harry. Now in London place him;

(As yet the lamentation of the French
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,
Till Harry's back-returu 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 ad-

vance

After your thought, straight back again to
[Exit.
France.⚫
SCENE 1.-France.-An English Court of

Guard.

Enter PISTOL.

Gow. Why, here he comes, swelling like a turkey-cock. Flu. Tis no matter for his swellings, nor his turkey-cocks.-Got pless you, ancient Pistol, you scarvey, lowsy knave, Got bless you!

Pist. Ha! art thou Bedlam? dost thou thirst, base Trojan,

To bave me fold up Parca's fatal web?
Hence! I am qualmish at the smell of leek.

[Exit. Pist. Doth fortune play the huswife with me now?

News have 1, that my Nell is dead i'the spital §
Of inalady of France;

And there my rendezvous is quite cut off.
Old I do wax; and from my weary limbs
Well, band will I turn,
Honour is cudgell'd.
And something lean to cutpurse of quick hand.
To England will I steal, and there I'll steal :
And patches will I get unto these scars,
And swear I got them in the Gallia wars.

Flu. I peseech you heartily, scurvy, lowsy knave, at my desires, and my requests, and my petitions, to eat, look you, this leek; because, Look you, you do not love it, nor your affectious, and your appetites, aud your digestions, does not agree with it, I would desire you to

eat it.

Cadwallader, and all his

Pist. Not for goats.

Fl. There is one goat for you. [Strikes him.] Will you be so goot, scald knave, as eat it ? Pist Base Trojan, thou shalt die. true, scald kuave, when Flu. You say very Got's will is: I will desire you to live in the mean time, and eat your victuals; come, there is sauce for it. [Striking him again.] You called me yesterday, mountain-squire; but I will make you to day a squire of low degree. I pray you fall to; if you cau mock a leek, you can eat a leek.

Gow. Enough, captain; you have astonished t him.

Flu. I say, I will make him eat some part of my leek, or I will peat his pate four days:Pite, I pray you; it is goot for your green wound, and your ploody coxcomb.

Pist. Must I bite ?

[Exit. SCENE IL-Troyes in Champagne.-An Apartment in the French King's Palace. GLOSTER, EXETER, WARWICK, WEST MOREEnter, at one door, King HENRY, BEDFORD, LAND, and other Lords; at another; the FRENCH KING, Queen ISABEL, the Princess KATHARINE, Lords, Ladies, &c. the Duke of BURGUNDY, and his Truin.

Unto our brother France, and to our sister,
[rine;
Health and fair time of day, joy and good
wishes
To our most fair and princely cousin Katha.
And (as a branch and member of this royalty,
By whom this great assembly is contriv'd,)
We do salute you, duke of Burgundy ;-
Aud princes French, and peers, health to you
all!
Fr. King. Right joyous are
your face,

we to behold

Most worthy brother England; fairly met:
So are you, princes English, every one.

Q. Isa. So happy be the issue, brother Erg.
land,

Of this good day, and of this gracious meeting,
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:
The venom of such looks, we fairly hope,

Flu. Yes, certainly; and out of doubt, and oul of questions too, and ambiguities. Pist. By this leck, I will most horribly revenge; I eat, and eke I swear

K. Hen. Peace to this meeting, wherefore we

are met!

Henry did not strike a blow in France, for two gears after the decisive battle of Agincourt; but imme ately concluded a truce for that period.--Hume. + Dost thou desire to have me put thee to death?" 1 Stunned.

Have lost their quality; and that this day
Shall change all griefs, and quarrels, into love.
K. Hen. To cry amen to that, thus we ap-
pear.

Q. Isa. You English princes all, I do salute

you.

Bur. My duty to you both, on equal love, Great kings of France and England! That I have laboured

With all my wits, my pains, and strong endea-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 bere
with us;

vours,

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,
That face to face, and royal eye to eye,
You have congreeted; let it not disgrace me,
If I demand, before this royal view,
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,
Our fertile France, put up her lovely visage?
Alas! she hath from Frauce too long been
chas'd;

And all her husbandry doth lie on heaps,
Corrupting in its own fertility.

Her vine, the merry cheerer of the heart,
Unpruned dies: her hedges even-pleached,-
Like prisoners wildly over-grown with hair,
Put forth disorder'd twigs: her fallow leas
The daruel 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
The freckled cowslip, burnet, and green clover,
Wanting the scythe, all uncorrected, rank,
Conceives by idleness; and nothing teems,
But hateful docks, rough thistles, kecksi
burs,
Losing both beauty and utility.

And as our vineyards, fallows, meads, and hedges,

And take with you free power, to ratify,
Augment, or alter, as your wisdoms best
Shall see advantageable for our dignity,
Any thing in, or out of, our demands;
And we'll consign thereto.-Will you, fair sis-
ter,

Go with the princes, or stay here with us?
Q. Isa. Our gracious brother, I will go with
them;

Defective in their natures, grow to wildness; Even so our houses, and ourselves, and children,

+ Ploughshare. up the roots.

Have lost, or do not learn, for want of time,
The sciences that should become our country;
But grow, like savages, as soldiers will,
That nothing do but meditate, on blood,)
To swearing, and stern looks, diffus'd ý attire,
And every thing that seems unnatural.
Which to reduce into our former favour, ||
You are assembled: and my speech entreats,
That I may know the let, ¶ why gentle peace
Should not expel these inconveniencies,
And bless us with her former qualities.

K. Hen. If, duke of Burgundy, you would
the peace,

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 tenors and particular effects
You have, enschedul'd briefly, in your hands.
Bur. The king hath beard them; to the

which, as yet, There is no answer inade.

K. Hen. Well then, the peace,

Which you before so urg'd, lies in his answer.
Fr. King. I have but with a cursorary eye
O'er-glanc'd the articles: pleaseth your grace
To appoint some of your council presently
To sit with us once more, with better heed
To re-survey them, we will, suddenly,
Pass our accept, and peremptory answer.

K. Hen. Brother, we shall.-Go, uncle Exe

ter,

And brother Clarence, and you, brother

ter,Warwick and Huntingdon, go with the king:

• Barrier.

To deracinate is to force 5 Extravagant. Appearance. Hiuderance.

She is our capital demand, compris'd
Within the fore-rank of our articles.
Q. Isa. She hath good leave.

[Exeunt all but HENRY, KATHARINE, and her Gentlewoman. K. Hen. Fair Katharine, and most fair! Will you vouchsafe to teach a soldier terms Such as will enter at a lady's ear,

And plead his love-suit to her gentle heart? Kath. Your majesty shall mock at me; I can. not speak your England.

K. Hen. O fair Katharine, if you will love me soundly with your French heart, I will be glad to hear you confess it brokenly with your English tongue. Do you like me, Kate ?

Kath. Pardonnez moy, I cannot tell vat islike me.

K. Hen. An angel is like you, Kate; and you are like an angel.

Kath. Que dit-il? que jesuis semblable à les anges?

Alice. Ouy, vrayment, (sauf vostre grace) ainsi dit il. 重

K. Hen. I said so, dear Katharine; and 1 must not blush to affirm it.

Kath. O bon Dieu! les langues des hom mes sont pleines des tromperies.

K Hen. What says she, fair one? that the longues of men are full of deceits!

•

Alice. Ouy; dat de tongues of de mans is be full of deceits: dat is de princess.

K. Hen. The princess is the better Englishwoman. I'faith, Kate, my wooing is fit for thy understanding: 1 am glad thou can'st speak no better English; for, if thou could'st, thea would'st find me such a plain king, that thoa would'st think I had sold my farm to buy my crown. I know no ways to mince it in love, but directly to say-I love you: then, if you urge me further than to say-Do you in faith! I wear out my suit. Give me your answer; i'faith, do; and so clap hands and a bargain: How say you, lady f Kath. Sauf vostre honneur, me understand

well.

nor

•

K. Hen. Marry, if you would put me to verses, or to dance for your sake, Kate, why you undid me: for the one, I have neither words measure; and for the other, I have no strength in measure, yet a reasonable measure in strength. If I could win a lady at leapfrog, or by vaulting into my saddle with my armour on my back, under the correction of bragging be it spoken, I should quickly lesp into a wife. Or, if I might buffet for any love, or bound my horse for her favours, I could lay on like a butcher, and sit like a jack-an-apes, never off but, before God, I cannot look greenly, nor gasp out my eloquence, nor I have no cunning in protestation; only dowuright 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 in his glass for Glos-love of any thing he sees there, let thine eye be thy cook. I speak to thee plain soldier: If thou canst love ine 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.

• In dancing.

† 1. e. Like a young lover, awkwardly,