'A made a finer end, and went away, an it had For England his approaches makes as fierce, been any christom' child; 'a parted even just be- As waters to the sucking of a gulf. tween twelve and one, e'en at turning o'the tide; It fits us then, to be as provident for after I saw him fumble with the sheets, and As fear may teach us, out of late examples play with flowers, and smile upon his fingers' ends, Left by the fatal and neglected English knew there was but one way; for his nose was Upon our fields. Dau. as sharp as a pen, and 'a babbled of green fields. My most redoubted father, How now, sir John? quoth I: what, man! be of It is most meet we arm us 'gainst the foe: good cheer. So 'a cried out-God, God, God! For peace itself should not so dull a kingdom, three or four times: now I, to comfort him, bid (Though war, nor no known quarrel, were in him, 'a should not think of God; I hoped, there question,) was no need to trouble himself with any such But that defences, musters, preparations, thoughts yet: So, 'a bade me lay more clothes on Should be maintain'd, assembled, and collected, his feet: I put my hand into the bed, and felt them, As were a war in expectation. and they were as cold as any stone; then I felt to Therefore, I say, 'tis meet we all go forth, his knees, and so upward, and upward, and all To view the sick and feeble parts of France: vas as cold as any stone. Nym. They say, he cried out for sack. Bard. And of women. Quick. Nay, that 'a did not. Boy. Yes, that 'a did; and said, they were devils incarnate. Quick. 'A could never abide carnation; 'twas a colour he never liked. Boy. 'A said once, the devil would have him about women. Quick. 'A did in some sort, indeed, handle women: but then he was rheumatic;2 and talked of the whore of Babylon. And let us do it with no show of fear; No, with no more, than if we heard that England Con. Boy. Do you not remember, 'a saw a flea stick And you shall find, his vanities fore-spents Bard. Well, the fuel is gone, that maintained that fire: that's all the riches I got in his service. Nym. Shall we shog off? the king will be gone from Southampton. Pist. Come, let's away.-My love, give me thy Look to my chattels, and my moveables: For oaths are straws, men's faiths are wafer-cakes, Go, clear thy crystals.-Yoke-fellows in arms, [Kissing her. Nym. I cannot kiss, that is the humour of it; but adieu. Pist. Let housewifery appear; keep close, I thee command. Quick. Farewell; adieu. Were but the outside of the Roman Brutus, Dau. Well, 'tis not so, my lord high constable, Fr. King. Think we king Harry strong; Up in the air, crown'd with the golden sun,[Exeunt. Saw his heroical seed, and smil'd to see him Mangle the work of nature, and deface SCENE IV.-France. A room in the French The patterns that by God and by French fathers King's palace. Enter the French King attended; Had twenty years been made. This is a stem the Dauphin, the Duke of Burgundy, the Consta- Of that victorious stock; and let us fear ble, and others. The native mightiness and fate of him. Fr. King. Thus come the English with full power upon us; And more than carefully it us concerns, Therefore the dukes of Berry, and of Bretagne, Enter a Messenger. Mess. Ambassadors from Henry king of England [Exe. Mess, and certain Lords. With men of courage, and with means defendant: You see, this chace is hotly follow'd, friends. (1) A child not more than a month old. (2) Mrs. Quickly means lunatic. (3) Drv thy eyes. (4) Render it callous, insensible. (7) Lineage. Dau. Turn head, and stop pursuit: for coward] dogs threaten, Exe. He'll make your Paris Louvre shake for it, Must spend their mouths, when what they seem to And, be assur'd, you'll find a difference Runs far before them. Good my sovereign, Re-enter Lords, with Exeter and train. From our brother England? [Gives a paper. In every branch truly demonstrative; Exe. Bloody constraint; for if you hide the crown For the dauphin, And any thing that may not misbecome Dau. Say, if my father render fair reply, I did present him with those Paris balls. (1) Resound, echo. (2) Bank or shore. flies, In motion of no less celerity Than that of thought. Suppose, that you have seen With fatal mouths gaping on girded Harfleur. Tells Harry-that the king doth offer him K. Hen. Once more unto the breach, dear friends, Or close the wall up with our English dead! (4) The staff which holds the match used in firing cannon. (5) Small pieces of ordnance. 448 In peace, there's nothing so becomes a man, But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Let it pry through the portage of the head, Nym. These be good humours!-your honour wins bad huinours. [Exeunt Nym, Pistol, and Bardolph, followed by Fluellen. Boy. As young as I am, I have observed 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 Like the brass cannon; let the brow o'erwhelm it, not amount to a man. For Bardolph,--he is white As fearfully, as doth a galled rock Now set the teeth, and stretch the nostril wide; Have, in these parts, from morn till even fought, 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; and therefore he scorns to say his prayers, lest 'a should be thought a coward; but his few bad words are match'd with as few good deeds; for 'a never broke any man's head but his own; and that was against a post, when he was drunk. They will steal any thing, and call it, That those, whom you call'd fathers, did beget purchase. Bardolph stole a lute-case; bore it you! Be copy now to men of grosser blood, yeomen, twelve leagues, and sold it for three halfpence. Nym and Bardolph, are sworn brothers in filching; good and in Calais they stole a fire-shovel: I knew, by that piece of service, the men would carry coals. They would have me as familiar with men's pockets, as their gloves or their handkerchiefs: which makes much against my manhood, if I should take from another's pocket, to put into mine; for it is plain pocketing up of wrongs. I must leave them, and seek some better service: their villany goes against my weak stomach, and therefore I must cast it up. [Exit Boy. Whose limbs were made in England, show us here For there is none of you so mean and base, breach! [Exeunt. Alarum, and chambers go off. Re-enter Fluellen, Gower following. Gow. Captain Fluellen, you must come presently to the mines; the duke of Gloster would speak with you. SCENE II.-The same. Forces pass over; then Flu. To the mines! tell you the duke, it is not enter Nym, Bardolph, Pistol, and Boy. so good to come to the mines: For, look you, the Bard. On, on, on, on, on! to the breach, to the mines is not according to the disciplines of the war; the concavities of it is not sufficient; for, look Nym. 'Pray thee, corporal, stay; the knocks you, th' athversary (you may discuss unto the duke, are too hot; and, for mine own part, I have not a look you,) is dight himself four yards under the case of lives: the humour of it is too hot, that is countermines: by Cheshu, I think, 'a will plow the very plain-song of it. Pist. The plain-song is most just; for humours do abound; Knocks go and come; God's vassals drop and die; In bloody field, Doth win immortal fame. Boy. 'Would I were in an ale-house in London! I would give all my fame for a pot of ale, and safety. Pist. And I: If wishes would prevail with me, My purpose should not fail with me, But thither would I hie. up all, if there is not better directions. Gow. The duke of Gloster, to whom the 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? Flu. By Cheshu, he is an ass, as in the 'orld: I will verify as much in his peard: he has no more directions in the true disciplines of the wars, look you, of the Roman disciplines, than is a puppy-dog. Enter Macmorris and Jamy, at a distance. Gow. Here 'a comes; and the Scots captain, Boy. As duly, but not as truly, as bird doth sing captain Jamy, with him. on bough. Enter Fluellen. Flu. Got's plood!-Up to the preaches, you rascals! will you not up to the preaches? [Driving them forward. Pist. Be merciful, great duke,' to men of mould! Abate thy rage, abate thy manly rage! Abate thy rage, great duke! Good bawcock, bate thy rage! use lenity, sweet chuck! Flu. Captain Jamy is a marvellous falorous gentleman, that is certain; and of great expedition, and knowledge, in the ancient wars, upon my particular knowledge of his directions: by Cheshu, he will maintain his argument as well as any military man in the 'orld, in the disciplines of the pristine wars of the Romans. Jamy. I say, gud-day, captain Fluellen. Flu. God-den to your worship, goot captain Jamy. Gow. How now, captain Macmorris? have you quit the mines? have the pioneers given o'er? Mac. By Chrish la, tish ill done: the work isn And the flesh'd soldier,-rough and hard of heart,— give over, the trumpet sound the retreat. By my In liberty of bloody hand, shall range hand, I swear, and by my father's soul, the work With conscience wide as hell; mowing like grass Ish ill done; it ish give over: I would have blowed Your fresh-air virgins, and your flowering infants. up the town, so Chrish save me, la, in an hour. What is it then to me, if impious war,— O, tish ill done, tish ill done; by my hand, tish ill Array'd in flames, like to the prince of fiends,done! Do, with his smirch'd complexion, all fell3 feats Flu. Captain Macmorris, I peseech you now, will Enlink'd to waste and desolation? you vouchsafe me, look you, a few disputations with What is't to me, when you yourselves are cause, you? as partly touching or concerning the disci- If your pure maidens fall into the hand plines of the war, the Roman wars, in the way of Of hot and forcing violation? argument, look you, and friendly communication; What rein can hold licentious wickedness, partly, to satisfy my opinion, and partly, for the When down the hill he holds his fierce career? satisfaction, look you, of my mind, as touching the We may as bootless spend our vain command direction of the military discipline; that is the point. Upon the enraged soldiers in their spoil, Jamy. It sall be very gud, gud feith, gud cap- As send precepts to the Leviathan tains both and I sall quit you with gud leave, as To come ashore. Therefore, you men of Harfleu I may pick occasion; that sall I, marry. Take pity of your town, and of your people, Mac. It is no time to discourse, so Chrish save Whiles yet my soldiers are in my command; me, the day is hot, and the weather, and the wars, Whiles yet the cool and temperate wind of grace and the king, and the dukes; it is no time to dis- O'erblows the filthy and contagious clouds course. The town is beseeched, and the trumpet Of deadly murder, spoil, and villany. calls us to the breach; and we talk, and, by Chrish, If not, why, in a moment, look to see do nothing; 'tis shame for us all: so God sa' me, The blind and bloody soldier with foul hand 'tis shame to stand still; it is shame, by my hand: Defile the locks of your shrill-shrieking daughters; and there is throats to be cut, and works to be done; Your fathers taken by the silver beards, and there ish nothing done, so Chrish sa' me, la. And their most reverend heads dash'd to the walls; Jamy. By the mess, ere theise eyes of mine take Your naked infants spitted upon pikes; themselves to slumber, aile do gude service, or aile Whiles the mad mothers with their howls confus'd ligge i'the grund for it; ay, or go to death; and Do break the clouds, as did the wives of Jewry aile pay it as valorously as I may, that sall I surely At Herod's bloody-hunting slaughtermen. do, that is the breff and the long: Mary, I wad full What say you? will you yield, and this avoid? fain heard some question 'tween you tway. Flu. Captain Macmorris, I think, look you, under your correction, there is not many of your nation Mac. Of my nation? What ish my nation? ish a villain, and a bastard, and a knave, and a rascal? What ish my nation? Who talks of my nation? Or, guilty in defence, be thus destroy'd? Gov. Our expectation hath this day an end: Flu. Look you, if you take the matter otherwise than is meant, captain Macmorris, peradventure, I K. Hen. Open your gates.-Come, uncle Exeter, shall think you do not use me with that affability as Go you and enter Harfleur; there remain, in discretion you ought to use me, look you; being And fortify it strongly 'gainst the French: as goot a man as yourself, both in the disciplines Use mercy to them all. For us, dear uncle,of wars, and in the derivation of my birth, and in The winter coming on, and sickness growing other particularities. Upon our soldiers,-we'll retire to Calais. Mac. I do not know you so good a man as my-To-night in Harfleur will we be your guest, self: so Chrish save me, I will cut off your head. Gow. Gentlemen both, you will mistake each other. Jamy. Au! that's a foul fault. [A parley sounded. Flu. Captain Macmorris, when there is more SCENE III.-The same. Before the gates of K. Hen. How yet resolves the governor of the This is the latest parle we will admit: I will not leave the half-achieved Harfleur, The gates of mercy shall be all shut up; (1) Requite, answer. (2) Soiled. (3) Cruel. To-morrow for the march are we addrest." [Flourish. The King, &c. enter the town. SCENE IV.-Rouen. A room in the palace. Enter Katharine and Alice. Kath. Alice, tu as esté en Angleterre, et tu parles bien le language. Alice. Un peu, madame. Alice. Le main? elle est appellée, de hand. Alice. Les doigts? ma foy, je oublie les doigts; mais je me souviendray. Les doigts? je pense, qu'ils sont appellé de fingres; ouy, de fingres. Kath. Le main, de hand; les doigts, de fingres. Je pense, que je suis le bon escolier. Pay gagné deux mots d'Anglois vistement. Comment appelle: vous les ongles? Alice. Les ongles ? les appellons, de nails. Kath. De nails. Escoutez; dites moy, si je parle bien; de hand, de fingres, de nails. Alice. C'est bien dit, madame; il est fort bow Anglois. (4) Without success. (5) Prepared. SL Kath. Dites moy en Anglois, le bras. Kath. De elbow. Je m'en faitz la repetition de tous les mots, que vous m'avez appris dès a present. Alice. Il est trop difficile, madame, comme je pense. Kath. Excusez moy, Alice; escoutez: De hand, de fingre, de nails, de arm, de bilbow. Alice. De elbow, madame. Decoct their cold blood to such valiant heat? Sweat drops of gallant youth in our rich fields; Our madams mock at us; and plainly say, Kath. O Seigneur Dieu! je m'en oublie; De el- Their bodies to the lust of English youth, bow. Comment appellez vous le col ? Alice. De neck, madame. Kath. De neck: Et le menton ? Alice. De chin. Kath. De sin. Le col, de neck: le menton, de sin. Alice. Ouy. Sauf vostre honneur; en verité vous prononces les mots aussi droict que les natifs d'Angleterre. Kath. Je ne doute point d'apprendre par la grace de Dieu; et en peu de temps. Alice. N'avez vous pas deja oublié ce que je vous ay enseignée ? Kath. Non, je reciteray à vous promptement. De hand, de fingre, de mails. Alice. De nails, madame. Kath. De nails, de arme, de ilbow. Kath. Ainsi dis je; de elbow, de neck, et de sin: To new-store France with bastard warriors. And teach lavoltas high, and swift corantos; Fr. King. Where is Montjoy, the herald? speed Let him greet England with our sharp defiance.- For your great seats, now quit you of great shames. Bar Harry England, that sweeps through our land Kath. De foot, et de con? O Seigneur Dieu! With penons painted in the blood of Harfleur: ces sont mots de son mauvais, corruptible, grosse, Rush on his host, as doth the melted snow et impudique, et non pour les dames d'honneur Upon the valleys; whose low vassal seat d'user: Je ne voudrois prononcer ces mots devant The Alps doth spit and void his rheum upon : les seigneurs de France, pour tout le monde. Il Go down upon him,-you have power enough,faut de foot, et de con, néant-moins. Je reciterai And in a captive chariot, into Rouen une autre fois ma leçon ensemble: De hand, de fingre, de nails, de arm, de elbow, de neck, de sin, de foot, de con. Bring him our prisoner. Con. This becomes the great. Sorry am I, his numbers are so few, Alice. Excellent, madame! His soldiers sick, and famish'd in their march; Kath. C'est assez pour une fois; allons nous a For, I am sure, when he shall see our army, disner. [Exeunt. He'll drop his heart into the sink of fear, SCENE V.-The same. Another room in the And, for achievement, offer us his ransom. same. Enter the French King, the Dauphin, Duke of Bourbon, the Constable of France, and others. Fr. King. Therefore, lord constable, haste on And let him say to England, that we send Pr. King. Be patient, for you shall remain with us. Now, forth, lord constable, and princes all; [Exeunt. SCENE VI.-The English camp in Picardy. Enter Gower and Fluellen. Gow. How now, captain Fluellen? come you from the bridge? Flu. I assure you, there is very excellent service committed at the pridge. Gow. Is the duke of Exeter safe? Flu. The duke of Exeter is as magnanimous as Con. Dieu de battailes! where have they this Agamemnon; and a man that I love and honour mettle? Is not their climate foggy, raw, and dull? with my soul, and my heart, and my duty, and my life, and my livings, and my uttermost powers: he is not (Got be praised, and plessed!) any hurt in the 'orld; but keeps the pridge most valiantly, with excellent discipline. There is an ensign there at (5) Pendants, small flags. (4) Dances. |