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, Therefore, caveto be thy counsellor. Go, 'clear thy chryftals.-Yoke-fellows in arms, Boy. And that is but unwholesome food, they say. 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, As fear may teach us, out of late examples Dau. My moft redoubted father, It is most meet we arm us 'gainst the foe: 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: 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, Con. O peace, prince Dauphin! You are too much mistaken in this king: fatal-fated to conquer. D3. With With what great state he heard their embassy, Fr. King. Think we king Harry strong; And, princes, look, you strongly arm to meet him, Of that black name, Edward black prince of Wales; 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,- The patterns that by God and by French fathers 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, 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- The borrow'd glories, that, by gift of heaven, To him, and to his heirs; namely, the crown, fate of bim.]-what he is fated to perform. By cuftom, and the ordinance of times, Unto the crown of France. That you may know, Pick'd from the worm-holes of long-vanish'd days, [Gives the French king a paper. Willing you overlook this pedigree: Exe. Bloody constraint; for if you hide the crown To whom expressly I bring greeting too. Pline,]-genealogy, deduction of lineage. and on your bead-Turns be. Fr. King. |