A many of our bodies shall, no doubt,
Find native graves; upon the which, I trust,
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 dunghills,
They shall be fam'd: for there the sun shall greet

them,

And draw their honours reeking up to heaven;
Leaving their earthly parts to choak your clime,
The smell whereof shall breed a plague in France.
Mark then a bounding valour in our English;
That, being dead, like to the bullet's grazing,
Breaks out into a second course of mischiet,
Killing in relapse of mortality'.

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Fr. Sol. O seigneur Dieu !

Pist. O, signieur Dew should be a gentleman:--
Perpend my words, Osignieur Dew, and mark;—
O signieur Dew, thou dy'st on point of fox3,
Except, O signieur, thou do give to me
Egregious ransom.

Fr. Sol. O, prennez miscricorde! ayez pitié de moy!

Pist. Moy shall not serve, I will have forty moys;
For I will fetch thy rim cut at thy throat,
In drops of crimson blood.

Fr. Sol. Est-il impossible d'eschapper la force de ton bras?

Pist. Brass, cur!

15 Thou damned and luxurious mountain goat, Offer'st me brass?

Fr. Sol. O, pardonnez moi !

Pist. Say'st thou me so? is that a ton of moys?? -Come hither, boy; Ask me this slave in French, 20 What is his name.

Let me speak proudly;-Tell the Constable,
We are but warriors for the working-day:
Our gayness, and our gilt, are all besmich'd
With rainy marching in the painful field;
There's not a piece of feather in our host,
(Good argument, I hope, we shall not fly)
And time hath worn us into slovenry:
But, by the mass, our hearts are in the trim:
And my poor soldiers tell me-yet ere night
They'll be in fresher robes; or they will pluck
The gay new coats o'er the French soldiers' heads, 25
And turn them out of service. If they do this,
(As, if God please, they shall) my ransom then
Will soon be levy'd. Herald, save thy labour;
Come thou no more for ransom, gentle herald;
They shall have none, I swear, but these my 30

joints:

Which if they have as I will leave 'em to them,
Shall yield them little, tell the Constable.

Mont. I shall, king Harry. And so fare thee
well:

Thou never shalt hear herald any more. [Erit. K.Heury. I fear, thou'lt once more come again for ransom.

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Enter the Duke of York.
York. My lord, most humbly on my knee I beg 40
The leading of the vaward.

K. Henry. Take it, brave York.-Now, sol-
diers, march away:-

And how thou pleasest, God, dispose the day!

Boy. Escoutes; Comment estes cous appellé ?
Fr. Sol. Monsieur le Fer.

Boy. He says, his name is—master Fer.
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.

Pist. Bid him prepare, for I will cut his throat.
Fr. Sol. Que dit-il, monsieur?

Boy. Il me commande de cous dire que vous vous teniez prest; car ce soldat icy est disposé tout à cette heure de couper costre gorge.

Pist. Ouy, couper gorge, par ma foy, pesant, Unless thou give me crowns, brave crowns; 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, & je vous donneray deux Pist. What are his words? [cents escus.

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.

Pist. Tell him,-my fury shall abate, and I

[Exeunt. 45 The crowns will take.

Alarum, excursions. Enter Pistol, French Soldier, and Boy.

Pist. Yield, cur. Fr. Sol. Je pense, que vous estes le gentilhomme de bonne qualité.

Fr. Sol. Petit monsieur, que dit-il ? ́ Boy. Encore qu'il est contre son jurement, de pardonner aucun prisonnier; neantmoins, pour les escus que vous l'avez promettez, il est content 50 de vous donner la liberté, le franchisement.

Pist. Quality, call you me ?-Construeme, art thou a gentleman? What is thy name? discuss. 155

Fr. Sol. Sur mes genoux je vous donne mille remercimens: & je m'estime heureux que je suis tombé entre les mains d'un chevalier, je pense, le plus brave, valiant, & tres distingué seigneur Pist. Expound unto me, boy. [d'Angleterre.

1 Mr. Steevens observes, that by this phrase, however uncouth, Shakspeare seems to mean the same as in the preceding line. Mortality is death. Relapse may be used for rebound. Shakspeare has given mind fhonour, for honourable mind; and by the same rule might write relapse of mortality, for fal or meal rebound; or by relapse of mortality, he may mean-after they had relapsed inta inan....ation. 2 i. e. golden show, superficial gilding. Obsolete. 3 For is an old cant word for a sword. The rim means what is now called the diaphragm in human creatures, and the skirt or midriff in beasts. Moys is a piece of money; whence moi d'or, or moi of gold. To firk is used in a variety of senses by different old authors: in this place it would seem to mean, to chastise. Boy.

Boy. He gives you, upon his knees, a thousand thanks; and esteems himself happy that he hath fallen into the hands of one (as he thinks), the most brave, valorous, and thrice-worthy signieur of England.

Pist. As I suck blood, I will some mercy shew. -Follow me, cur.

Boy. Suivez vous le grand capitaine,

[Exe. Pistol, and French Soldier.

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Exe. The duke of York commends him to your majesty.

K. Henry Lives he, good uncle? Thrice, within this hour,

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, Larding the plain: and by his bloody side (Yoak-fellow to his honour-owing wounds,)

I did never know so full a voice issue from so 10 The noble earl of Suffolk also lies.

empty a heart: but the saying is true,―The empty vesselmakes the greatest sound. Bardolph, and Nym, had ten times more valour than this roaring devil' i' the old play, that every one may pare his nails with a wooden dagger; yet they are 15 both hang'd; and so would this be, if he durst steal any thing advent'rously. I must stay with the lacqueys, with the luggage of our camp: the French might have a good prey of us, if he knew for there is none to guard it, but boys.

of it;

SCENE V.

[Exit.

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Another part of the field of Battle.
Enter Constable, Orleans, Bourbon, Dauphin, 25

and Rambures.

Con. O diable!
[perdu !
Orl. O seigneur !—le jour est perdu, tout est
Dau. Mort de ma vie! all is confounded, all!
Reproach and everlasting shame
Sits mocking in our plumes. [4 skort alarm.
O meschante fortune !-Do not run away.
Con. Why, all our ranks are broke.
Dau.O perdurable shame!-let'sstab ourselves.
Be these the wretches that we play'd at dice for
Orl. Is this the king we sent to for his ransom:
Bour. Shame, and eternal shame, nothing but
shame!

Let us die instant:-Once more back again ;
And he that will not follow Bourbon now,
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.

Suffolk first dy'd: and York, all haggled over,
Comes to him, where in gore he lay insteep'd,
And takes him by the beard; kisses the gashes,
That bloodily did yawn upon his face;
And cries aloud,-Tarry, dear cousin Suffolk!
My soul shall thine keep company to heaven:
Tarry, sweet soul, for mine, then fly a-breast;
As, in this glorious and well-foughten field,
We kept together in our chivalry.
Upon these words I came, and cheer'd him up :
He smil'd me in the face, raught me in 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
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
Those waters from me, which I would have stopp'd;
30 But I had not so much of man in me,
But all my mother came into mine eyes,
And gave me up to tears.

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K. Henry. I blame you not;

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;

Give the word through.

SCENE VII.

[Exeunt.

Alarums continued; after which, enter Fluellen and Gower.

Flu. Kill the poys and the luggage! 'tis ex

Con. Disorder, that hath spoiledus,friend usnow! 45 pressly against the law of arms: 'tis as arrant a

Let us, in heaps, go offer up our lives

Unto these English, or else die with fame,
Orl. We are enough, yet living in the field,
To smother up the English in our throngs,
If any order might be thought upon. [throng:50
Bour. The devil take order now! I'll to the
Let life be short; else shame will be too long.

SCENE VI.

[Exeunt.

piece of knavery, mark you now, as can be ofer'd, in the 'orld: In your conscience now, is it not?

Gow. 'Tis certain, there's not a boy left alive; and the cowardly rascals, that ran away from the battle, have done this slaughter: besides, they have burn'd or carried away all that was in the king's tent; wherefore the king, most worthily, has caus'd every soldier to cut his prisoner's throat, 550, 'tis a gallant king!

But all's not done, yet keep the French the field. |60|

Flu. I, he was porn at Monmouth, captain Gower: What call you the town's name, where Alexander the pig was born?

Gow. Alexander the Great.

Flu. Why, I pray you, is not pig, great? the

Dr. Johnson on this passage observes, that in modern puppet-shows, which seem to be copied from the old farces, Punch sometimes fights the Devil, and always overcomes him. I suppose the Vice of the old farce, to whom Punch succeeds, used to fight the Devil with a wooden dagger, ? Perdurable means lasting.

pig,

pig, or the great, or the mighty, or the huge, or the magnanimous, are all one reckonings, save the phrase is a little variations.

Gow. I think, Alexander the Great.was born in Macedon; his father was called-Philip of 5 Macedon, as I take it.

Flu. I think, it is in Macedon, where Alexander is porn. I tell you, captain,—It you look in the maps of the 'orld, I warrant, you shall find, in the comparisons between Macedon and Mon-10 mouth, that the situations, look you, is both alike. There is a river in Macedon: and there is also, moreover, a river at Monmouth: it is call'd Wye, at Monmouth; but it is out of my prains, what is the name of the other river; but 'tis all one, 'tis 15 so like as my fingers is to my fingers, and there is salmons in both. If you mark Alexander's life well, Harry of Monmouth's life is come after it indifferent well; for there is figures in all things. Alexander (Got knows, and you know) in his 20 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 Clytus.

Gow. Our king is not like him in that; he never kill'd any of his friends.

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Flu. It is not well done, mark you now, to take the tales out of my mouth, ere it is made an end and finish'd. I speak but in figures and compa-30 risons of it: As Alexander is kill his friend Clytus, being in his ales and his cups; so also Harry Monmouth, being in his right wits and his goot judgments, is turn away the fat knight with the great pelly-doublet: he was full of jests, and gypes, and knaveries, and mocks; I am forget his

name.

Gow. Sir John Falstaff.

Flu. That is he: I tell you, there is goot men porn at Monmouth.

Gow. Here comes his majesty.

Alarum. Enter King Henry, Warwick, Gloster,
Flourish.
Exeter, &c.

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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 the bloody field,
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:
So do our vulgar drench their peasant limbs
In blood of princes; while their wounded steeds
Fret fetlock deep in gore, and, with wild rage,
Yerk out their armed heels at their dead masters,
Killing them twice. O, give us leave, great king,
To view the field in safety, and dispose
Of their dead bodies.

K. Henry. I tell thee truly, herald,
I know not, if the day be ours, or no;
For yet a many of your horsemen peer,
And gallop o'er the field.

Mont. The day is yours.

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

What is this castle call'd, that stands hard by?
Mont. They call it—Agincourt. [court,
K. Henry. Then call we this-the field of Agin-
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.

K. Henry. They did, Fluellen.

Flu. Your majesty says very true: If your majesties is remember'd of it, the Welchmen did goot service in a garden where leeks did grow, wearing leeks in their Monmouth caps; which, your mejesty knows, to this hour is an honourable padge of the service: and, I do believe, your majesty 40 takes no scorn to wear the leek upon saint Tavy's day.

K. Henry. I wear it for a memorable honour: For I am Welch, you know, good countryman. Flu. All the water in Wye cannot wash your

K. Henry. I was not angry since I came to 45 majesty's Welsh plood out of your pody, Ican tell

France,

Until this instant.-Take a trumpet, herald;
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;
And make them skir' 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.
Enter Montjoy.

Exe. Here comes the herald of the French, my
liege.

you that: Got pless and preserve it, as long as it pleases his grace and his majesty too!

K. Henry. Thanks, good my countryman. Flu. By Cheshu, I am your majesty's country150 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 Got, so long as your majesty is an honest man.

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Glo. His eyes are humbler than they us'd to be. 60
K. Henry. How now! what means their herald:
Know'st thou not,

'See note 7, p. 384.

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

Enter Williams. Bring me just notice of the numbers dead On both our parts.- -Call yonder fellow hither. [Exeunt Montjoy and others. Exe. Soldier, you must come to the king. K Henry. Soldier, why wear'st thou that glove lin thy cap?

Mercenary here means common or hired blood. The gentlemen of the army

served at their own charge, in consequence of their tenures.

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

Will. An't please your majesty, a rascal, that swaggered with me last night: who, if 'a live, and 5 it 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.

K. Henry. 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.

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K. Henry. It may be, his enemy is a gentleman 15 of great sort', quite from the answer of his degree1.

Flu. Though he be as goot a gentleman as the tevil is, as Lucifer and Belzebub himself, it is necessary, look your grace, that he keep his vow and 20 his oath: if he be perjur'd, see you now, his re putation is as arrant a villain, and a jack-sauce, as ever his plack shoe trod upon Got's ground and his earth, in my conscience, la.

K. Henry. Then keep thy vow, sirrah, when 25

'thou meet'st the fellow."

Will. So I will, my liege, as I live.

K. Henry. Who servest thou under?

Will. Under Captain Gower, my liege.

Some sudden mischief may arise of it;
For do know Fluellen valiant,
And, touch'd with choler, hot as gunpowder,
And quickly he'll return an injury:
Follow, and see there be no harmm between them.—
Go you with me, uncle of Exeter. [Exeunt.
SCENE VIII.

Before King Henry's Pavillion.

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 is more goot toward you, paradventure, than is in your knowledge to dream of.

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 universal 'orld, or in France, or in England. Gow. How now, sir? you villain! Will. Do you think I'll be forsworn?

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

Fu. Gower is a goot captain; and is goot 30 in his majesty's name, apprehend him; he's a knowledge and literature in the wars.

K. Henry. Call him hither to me, soldier.
Will. I will, my liege.

[Exit.

K. Henry. Here, Fluellen; wear thou this favour for me, and stick it in thy cap: When Alen-35 con and myself were down together, I pluck'd this glove from his helm: if any man challenge this, he is a friend to Alençon, and an enemy to our person; if thou encounter any such, apprehend him,

as thou dost love me.

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

K.Henry. Know'st thou Gower?

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

Flu. I will fetch him.

[Exit

K. Henry. My lord of Warwick,--and my bro-
ther Gloster,-

Follow Fluellen closely at the heels:
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

By his blunt bearing, he will keep his word)

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High rank.

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triend of the duke Alençon's.

Enter Warwick, and Gloster.

War. How now, how now! what's the matter? Flu. My lord of Warwick, here is (praised be Got 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 Henry, and Exeter.

K. Houry. 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 Alençon.

Will. My liege, this is my glove; here is the fellow of it: and he, that I give it to in change, promis'd to wear it in his cap; I promis'd 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.

Fla. Your majesty hear now, (saving your ma50jesty's manhood) what anarrant,rascally, peggarly, lowsy knave it is: Ihope, your majesty is pear me testimonies, and witnesses, and avouchments, that this is the glove of Alençon, that your majesty is give me, in your conscience now.

55 K. Henry. Give me thy glove, soldier; Look, here is the fellow of it. "Twas 1, indeed, thou promisedst to strike; and thou hast given me most bitter terms.

Flu. An please your majesty, let his neck an160lswer for it, if there is any martial law in the 'orld.

Meaning, a man of such station as is not bound to hazard his person to answer to a challenge from one of the soldier's low degree. The Revisal reads, very plausibly," in two

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plows." The quarto reads, I will give treason his due presently. It must be, give me my glove;

for of the soldier's glove the king had not the fellow.

K. Henry.

K.Henry. Howcanst thou make me satisfaction? Will. All offences, my liege, come from the heart: never came any from mine, that might offend your majesty.

K. Henry. It was ourself thou didst abuse. Will. Your majesty came not like yourself: you appear'd to me but as a common man: witness the night, your garments, your lowliness; and what your highness suffer'd under 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, par

don me.

K. Henry. 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,

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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,
There are but sixteen hundred mercenaries';
The rest are-princes, barons, lords, knights,
And gentlemen of blood and quality. ['squires,
The names of those their nobles that lie dead,—
Charles De-la-bret2, high constable of France;
Jaques of Chatillon, admiral of France;

The master of the cross-bows, lord Rambures;
Great master of France, the brave Sir Guischard
Dauphin;

John duke of Alençon; Anthony duke of Brabant,
The brother to the duke of Burgundy;

15 And Edward duke of Bar: of lusty earls,
Grandpré, and Roussi, Fauconberg and Foix,
Beaumont, and Marle, Vaudemont, and Lestrale.
Here was a royal fellowship of death!—
Where is the number of our English dead? [folk,
Exe. Edward the duke of York, the earl of Sut-
Sir Richard Ketly, Davy Gan esquire:
None else of name; and, of all other men,
But five and twenty.

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 20 mettle enough in his pelly:-Hold, there is twelve pence for you, and I pray you to serve God, and keep you out of prawls, and prabbles, and quarrels, and dissensions, and, I warrant you, it is the petter for you.

you, it

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Will. I will none of your money. Fu. It is with a goot will; I can tell will serve you to mend your shoes: Come, wherefore should you be so pashiul? your shoes is not so goot: 'tis a goot silling, I warrant you, or I30 will change it.

Enter Hera'd.

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, 35
uncle?
[king;

Exe. Charles duke of Orleans, nephew to the
John duke of Bourbon, and lord Bouciqualt;
Of other lords, and barons, knights, and squires,
Full nitteen hundred, besides common men.

K. Hen. This note doth tell me of ten thousand
French,
[ber,
That in the field lie slain: of princes, in this num-
And nobles bearing banners, there lie dead
One hundred twenty-six: added to these,
Of knights, esquires, and gallant gentlemen,

Enter Chorus.

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K.Hen.Come, go we in procession to the village:
And be it death proclaimed through our host,
To boast of this, or take that praise from God,
Which is his only.

Flu. Is it not lawful, an please your majesty, to
tell how many is kill'd?
[ledgment,
K. Hen. Yes, captain; but with this acknow-
That God fought for us.

Flu. Yes, my conscience, he did us great goot.
K. Hen. 'Do we all holy rites;

Let there be sung Non nobis and Te Deum.
The dead with charity enclos'd in clay,
We'll then to Calais; and to England then;
45 Where ne'er from France arriv'd more happy men.
[Exeunt.

АСТ

Chorus. VOUCH AFE, to those that have not

read the story,

That I may prompt them: and for such as have,
I humbly pray them to admit the excuse
Of time, of numbers, and due course of things,
Which cannot in their huge and proper life

V.

Be here presented. Now we bear the king [seen,
Towards Calais; grant him there; and there being
Heave him away upon your winged thoughts
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,

1Se note2, p. 534. De-la-bret here, as in a former passage, should be Charles D'Albret, would the measure permit of such a change. The king (say the Chronicles) caused the psalm, In exitu Israel de Ægypto (in which, according to the Vulgate, is included the psalm Non nobis, Domine, &c.) to be sung alter the victory.