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Nym. Shall we fhog? the king will be gone from Southampton.

Pift. Come, let's away.-My love, give me thy lips. Look to my chattels, and my moveables:

'Let fenfes rule; the word is, Pitch and pay;

Truft none;

For oaths are straws, men's faiths are wafer-cakes,
And hold faft is the only dog, my duck;

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Therefore, caveto be thy counsellor.

Go, 'clear thy chryftals.-Yoke-fellows in arms,
Let us to France! like horse-leeches, my boys;
To fuck, to fuck, the very blood to fuck!

Boy. And that is but unwholesome food, they say.
Pift. Touch her soft mouth, and march.

Bard. Farewel, hostess.

Nym. I cannot kifs, that is the humour of it; but adieu.

Pift. Let housewif'ry appear; keep close, I thee command.

Quick. Farewel; adieu.

SCENE IV.

The French king's palace.

[Exeunt.

Enter the French king, the Dauphin, the duke of Burgundy, and the Conftable.

Fr. King. Thus come the English with full power

upon us;

And 'more than carefully it us concerns,

sers;

Let fenfes rule;]-Let prudence be thy guide.

Pitch and pay;]-touch pot, touch penny,-words ufed to por "throw down your burthens and be paid."

= bold faft]-Brag is a good dog, but boldfaft is a better. Prov. caveto-let caution.

clear by cryftals.]-wipe thine eyes-wash thy glaffes.

& ngre than carefully-with more than common care.

To

To answer royally in our defences.

Therefore the dukes of Berry, and of Bretagne,
Of Brabant, and of Orleans, fhall 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 :
For England his approaches makes as fierce,
As waters to the fucking of a gulph.
It fits us then, to be as provident

As fear may teach us, out of late examples
Left by the 'fatal and neglected English
Upon our fields.

Dau. My moft redoubted father,

It is most meet we arm us 'gainst the foe:

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For peace itself should not so dull a kingdom, (Though war, nor no known quarrel, were in question) But that defences, mufters, preparations,

Should be maintain'd, affembled, and collected,

As were a war in expectation.

Therefore, I fay, 'tis meet we all go forth,

To view the fick and feeble parts of France:
And let us do it with no fhew of fear;

No, with no more, than if we heard that England

Were bufied with a Whitfun morris-dance:

For, my good liege, fhe is fo idly king'd,

Her scepter so fantastically borne

By a vain, giddy, fhallow, humourous youth,
That fear attends her not.

Con. O peace, prince Dauphin!

You are too much mistaken in this king:
Question your grace the late ambaffadors,-

fatal-fated to conquer.
bumourous]-capricious, whimfical.

D3.

With

With what great state he heard their embassy,
How well fupply'd with noble counsellors,
How modest in ' exception, and, withal,
How terrible in conftant refolution,-
And you fhall find, his vanities fore-spent
Were but the out-fide of the Roman & Brutus,
Covering difcretion with a coat of folly;
As gardeners do with ordure hide thofe roots
That fhall first spring, and be most delicate.
Dau. Well, 'tis not fo, my lord high conftable,
But though we think it fo, it is no matter:
In cafes of defence, 'tis beft to weigh
The enemy more mighty than he feems,
So the proportions of defence are fill'd;
Which, oft a weak and niggardly 'projection,
Doth, like a mifer, fpoil his coat, with fcanting
A little cloth.

Fr. King. Think we king Harry strong;

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 'ftrain,
That haunted us in our familiar paths:
Witness our too much memorable fhame,
When Creffy battle fatally was ftruck,
And all our princes captiv'd by the hand

Of that black name, Edward black prince of Wales;
Whiles that his mountain fire,-on mountain ftanding,

f exception,]-objecting.

Brutus,]-The elder Brutus was, in his youth, wild, and apparently weak.

h though we think it fo,]-though fuch are my private fentiments. i prejection,]-provifion, preparation. have fatiated their refentment.

* fefb'd]-glutted,

1frain,]-lineage.

m mountain fire,]-Edward of Carnarvon was father to Edward III.mountain here means only of welch extraction.

Up

Up in the air, crown'd with the golden fun,-
Saw his heroical feed, and fimil'd to fee him
Mangle the work of nature, and deface

The patterns that by God and by French fathers
Had twenty years been made. This is a ftem

Of that victorious stock; and let us fear

The native mightinefs and "fate of him.

Enter a Messenger.

Me. Ambaffadors from Henry king of England Do crave admittance to your majesty.

Fr. King. We'll give them present audience. Go, and bring them.

You fee, this chafe is hotly follow'd, friends.

Dau. Turn head, and stop purfuit: for coward dogs • Most spend their mouths, when what they feem to threaten,

Runs far before them. Good my fovereign,
Take up the English short; and let them know
Of what a monarchy you are the head:

Self-love, my liege, is not fo vile a fin,

As felf-neglecting.

Enter Exeter.

Fr. King. From our brother England?

Exe. From him; and thus he greets your majefty-
He wills you, in the name of God Almighty,
That you diveft yourself, and lay apart

The borrow'd glories, that, by gift of heaven,
By law of nature, and of nations, 'long

To him, and to his heirs; namely, the crown,
And all wide-ftretched honours that pertain

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fate of bim.]-what he is fated to perform.
Mo Spend their mouths,]-Bark most.

By cuftom, and the ordinance of times,

Unto the crown of France. That you may know,
'Tis no finifter, nor no aukward claim,

Pick'd from the worm-holes of long-vanish'd days,
Nor from the dust of old oblivion rak'd,
He fends you this moft memorable Pline,
In every branch truly demonftrative;

[Gives the French king a paper.

Willing you overlook this pedigree:
And, when you find him evenly deriv'd
From his most fam'd of famous ancestors,
Edward the third, he bids you then refign
Your crown and kingdom, indirectly held
From him the native and true challenger.
Fr. King. Or elfe what follows?

Exe. Bloody constraint; for if you hide the crown
Even in your hearts, there will he rake for it:
And therefore in fierce tempeft is he coming,
In thunder, and in earthquake, like a Jove,
That, if requiring fail, he will compel.
He bids you, in the bowels of the Lord,
Deliver up the crown; and to take mercy
On the poor fouls, for whom this hungry war
Opens his vafty jaws : upon your head
Turning the dead mens' blood, the widows' tears,
The orphans' cries, the pining maidens' groans,
For husbands, fathers, and betrothed lovers,
That fhall be fwallow'd in this controversy.
This is his claim, his threatning, and my meffage;
Unless the Dauphin be in prefence here,

To whom expressly I bring greeting too.

Pline,]-genealogy, deduction of lineage. and on your bead-Turns be.

Fr. King.

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