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ACT 1.

SCENE 1-London.-An Antechamber in the King's Palace.

And wholesome berries thrive and ripen best,
Neighbour'd by fruit of baser quality:
And so the prince obscur'd his contemplation
Under the veil of wildness; which, no doubt,

Enter the Archbishop of CANTERBURY, and Grew like summer grass, fastest by night,

Bishop of ELY.

Cant. My lord, I'll tell you, that self bill is urg'a,

Which, in the eleventh year o'the last king's reign

Was like, and had indeed against us pass'd,
But that the scambling and unquiet time
Did push it out of further question.

Ely. But how, my lord, shall we resist it

now?

Cant. It must be thought on. If it pass against us,

We lose the better half of our possession;
For all the temporal lands which men devout
By testament have given to the church,
Would they strip from ns; being valued thus,-
As much as would maintain, to the king's
honour,

Full fifteen earls, and fifteen hundred knights;
Six thousand and two hundred good esquires;
And to relief of lazars, and weak age,

Of indigent faint souls, past corporal toil,
A hundred alms-bouses right-well supplied;
And to the coffers of the king beside,

A thousand pounds by the year: Thus runs the bill.

Ely. This would drink deep.

Cant. 'Twould drink the cup and all.

Ely. But what prevention ?

Cant. The king is full of grace and fair regard.

Ely. And a true lover of the holy church.
Cant. The courses of his youth promis'd

not.

The breath no sooner left his father's body, But that his wildness, mortified in him, Seem'd to die too: yea, at that very moment, Consideration like an angel came,

And whipp'd the offending Adam out of him;
Leaving his body as a paradise,

To envelop and contain celestial spirits.
Never was such a sudden scholar made:
Never came reformation in a flood,
With such a heady current scouring faults;
Nor never Hydra-headed wilfulness
So soon did lose his seat, and all at once,
As in this king.

Ely. We are blessed in the change.
Cant. Hear him but reason in divinity,
And, all-admiring, with an inward wish

Unseen, yet crescive in his faculty.

Cant. It must be so: for miracles are ceas'd And therefore we must needs admit the means How things are perfected.

Ely. But, my good lord,

How now for mitigation of this bill
Urg'd by the commons? Doth his majesty
Incline to it or no?

Cant. He seems indifferent;

Or, rather, swaying more upon our part,
Than cherishing the exhibiters against us :
For I have made an offer to his majesty,
(Upon our spiritual convocation;
And in regard of causes now in hand,
Which I have open'd to his grace at large,
As touching France, to give a greater sum
Than ever at one time the clergy yet
Did to his predecessors part withal.

Ely. How did this offer seem receiv'd, my lord ?

Cant. With good acceptance of his majesty ; Save, that there was not time enough to hear (As I perceiv'd, his grace would fain bave done,)

The severals and unhidden passages

of his true titles to some certain dukedoms; And, generally, to the crown and

France,

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Deriv'd from Edward, his great grandfather. Ely. What was the impediment that broke this off?

Cant. The French ambassador, upon tha instaut,

it Crav'd audience; and the hour I think is come To give him hearing: Is it four o'clock 1

You would desire the king were made a pre

late:

Hear him debate of commonwealth affairs,
You would say, it hath been all-in all his

study:

List his discourse of war, and you shall hear
A fearful battle render'd you in music:
Turn him to any cause of policy,
The Gordian knot of it he will unloose,
Familiar as his garter; that, when he speaks,
The air, a charter'd libertine, is still,
And the mute wonder lurketh in men's ears,
To steal his sweet and boneyed sentences;
So that the art and practic part of life
Must be the mistress to this theoric: +
Which is a wonder, how his grace
glean it,

should

Since his addiction was to courses vain;
His companies unletter'd, rude, and shallow;
His hours fill'd up with riots, banquets,
sports;

And never noted in him any study,
Any retirement, any sequestration
From open haunts and popularity.
Ely. The strawberry grows underneath the
nettle ;

Alluding to the method by which Hercules cleansed

Augear stable: viz. turning a river through it.
Theury.
Companions.

Ely. It is.

Cant. Then go we in to know his embassy; Which I could, with a ready guess, declare, Before the Frenchman speak a word of it. Ely. I'll wait upon you; and I long to heat it. [Exeunt.

SCENE II.-The same.-A Room of State in the same.

Enter King HENRY, GLOSTER, BEDFORD, EXETER, WARWICK, WESTMORELAND, and Attendants.

K. Hen. Where is my gracions lord of Canterbury?

Exe. Not here in presence.

K. Hen. Send for him, good uncle. W'est. Shall we call in the ambassador, my liege?

K. Hen. Not yet, my cousin; we would be resolv'd,

Before we hear him, of some things of weight, That task our thoughts, concerning us and France.

Enter the Archbishop of CANTERBURY, and Bishop of ELY.

Cant. God and his angels guard your sacred throne,

And make you long become it!

K. Hen. Sure, we thank you.
My learned lord, we pray you to proceed;
And justly and religiously unfold,
Why the law Salique, that they have in France
Or should, or should not, bar us in our claim.
And God forbid, my dear and faithful lord,
That you should fashion, wrest, or bow you
reading,

Or nicely charge your understanding soul
With opening titles miscreate, † whose right
Suits not in native colours with the truth;
For God doth know how many now in health

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ball drop their blood in approbation Of what your reverence shall incite us to: Therefore take heed how you impawn person; How you awake the sleeping sword of war;We charge you in the name of God, take heed: For never two such kingdoms did contend, Without much fall of blood; whose guiltless drops

Are every one a woe, a sore complaint,

Was re-united to the crown of France.
So that, as clear as is the summer's sen,
King Pepin's title, and Hugh Capet's claim,
King Lewis his satisfaction, all appear
To hold in right and title of the female:
So do the kings of France unto this day;
Howbeit they would hold up this Salique law,
To bar your highness claiming from the female;
And rather choose to hide them in a net,
Than amply to imbare their crooked titles

'Gainst him, whose wrongs give edge unto the Usurp'd from you and your progenitors.

swords

That make such waste in brief mortality.
Under this conjuration, speak, my lord;
And we will hear, note, and believe in heart,
That what you speak is in your conscience
wash'd

As pure as sin with baptism.

Cant. Then hear me, gracious sovereign, and you peers,

That owe your lives, your faith, and services,
To this imperial throne ;-There is no bar
To make against your highness' claim to France,
But this, which they produce from Phara
mond,-

In terram Salicam mulieres ne succedant,
No woman shall succeed in Salique land :
Which Salique land the French unjustly gloze, +
To be the realm of France, and Pharanoud
The founder of this law and female bar.
Yet their own authors faithfully affirm,
That the land Salique lies in Germany,
Between the floods of Sala and of Elbe:

Where Charles the great, having subdued the
Saxons,

There left behind and settled certain French;
Who, holding in disdain the German women,
For some dishonest manners of their life,
Establish'd there this law,-to wit, no female
Should be inheritrix in Salique land;
Which Salique, as I said, 'twixt Elbe and
Sala,

Is at this day in Germany call'd Meisen.
Thus doth it well appear, the Salique law
Was not devised for the realin of France :
Nor did the French possess the Salique land
Until four hundred one and twenty years
After defunction of king Pharamond,
Idly suppos'd the founder of this law;
Who died within the year of our redemption
Four hundred twenty-six; and Charles the
great

Subdued the Saxons, and did seat the French
Beyond the river Sala, in the year

Eight hundred five. Besides, their writers say,
King Pepin, which deposed Childerick,
Did, as heir general, being descended

Of Blithild, which was the daughter to Clothair,

Make claim and title to the crown of France. Hugh Capet also, that usurp'd the crown Of Charles the duke of Lorain, sole heir male of the true line and stock of Charles the great,

To fine this title with some show of truth,
(Though in pure truth, it was corrupt and
naught,)

Convey'd himself as heir to the lady Lingare,
Daughter to Charlemain, who was the son
To Lewis the emperor, and Lewis the son
Of Charles the great. Also king Lewis

tenth,

Who was sole heir to the usurper Capet,
Could not keep quiet in his conscience,
Wearing the crown of France, till satisfied
That fair queen Isabel, his grandinother,
Was lineal of the lady Ermengare,
Daughter to Charles the foresaid duke
Lorain :

K. Hen. May 1, with right and conscience, make this claim?

Cant. The sin upon my head, dread so vereign ! +

For in the book of Numbers is it writ,
When the son dies, let the inheritance
Descend unto the daughter. Gracious lord,
Stand for your own; unwind your bloody flag;
Look back unto your mighty ancestors:
Go, my dread lord, to your great grandsire s
tomb,

From whom you claim; invoke his warlike spirit,

And your great uncle's Edward the black prince;

Who on the French ground play'd a tragedy,
Making defeat on the full power of France;
Whiles his most mighty father on a hill
Stood smiling, to behold his lion's whelp
Forage in blood of French nobility. •
O noble English that could entertain
With half their forces the full pride of France;
And let another half stand laughing by,
All out of work, and cold for action!

Ely. Awake remembrance of these valiant dead,

And with your puissant arm renew their feats: You are their heir, you sit upon their throne; The blood and courage, that renowned them, Runs in your veins; and my thrice-puissant

liege

Is in the very May-morn of his youth,
Ripe for exploits and mighty enterprizes.
Ere. Your brother kings and monarchs of

the earth

Do all expect that you should rouse yourself,
As did the former lions of your blood.

West. They know your grace hath cause, and

means, and might;

So hath your highness; never king of England
Had nobles richer and more loyal subjects;
Whose hearts bave left their bodies here in
England,

And lie pavilion'd in the fields of France,

Cant. O let their bodies follow, my dear liege,

With blood, and sword, and fire, to win your
right:

In aid whereof, we of the spiritualty
Will raise your highness such a mighty sum,
As never did the clergy at one time
Bring in to any of your ancestors.

K. Hen. We must not only arm to invade the
French;

But lay down our proportions to defend
Against the Scot, who will make road upon us
With all advantages.

Cant. They of those marches, gracious so-
vereign,

the Shall be a wall sufficient to defend

of

By the which marraige, the line of Charles the great

The whole of this long speech is from Hollinshed. + Explain. 1 Make showy or specious. Derived his title.

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Came pouring like the tide unto a breach,
With ample and brim-fulness of his force;
Galling the gleaned land with hot essays;
Girding with grievous siege castles and towns;
That England, being empty of defence,
Hath shook and trembled at the ill neighbour-
hood.

Cant. She hath been then more fear'd than
harm'd, my liege:

For hear her but exampled by herself,-
When all her chivalry hath been in France,
And she a mourning widow of her nobles,
She hath herself not only well defended,
But taken and impounded as a stray,

The king of Scots; whom she did send to
France,

To fill king Edward's fame with prisoner
kings;

And make your chronicle as rich with praise,
As is the ooze and bottom of the sea
With sunken wreck and sumless treasuries.

Cannot defend our own door from the dog,
Let us be worried; and our nation lose
The name of hardiness and policy.

K. Hen. Call in the messengers sent from the Dauphin.

[Exit an Attendant. The KING ascends his Throne.

Now are we well resolv'd; and, by God's
help

And your's the noble sinews of our power,
France being our's, we'll bend it to our awe,
Or break it all to pieces: Or there we'll sit,
Ruling, in large and ample empery,
O'er France, and all her almost kingly duke-
doms;

Or lay these bones in an unworthy urn,
Tombless, with no remembrance over them:
Either our history shall, with full mouth,
Speak freely of our acts; or else our grave,
Like Turkish mute, shall have a tongueless
mouth,

West. But there's a saying, very old and Not worship'd with a waxen epitaph.

true,

If that you will France win,
Then with Scotland first begin:

For once the eagle England being in prey,
To her unguarded nest the weasel Scot

Comes sneaking; and so sucks her princely

eggs;

Playing the mouse, in absence of the cat,

To spoil and havoc more than she can eat.

Enter AMBASSADORS of France.

Now are we well prepar'd to know the plea.

sure

Of our fair cousin Dauphin; for, we hear,
Your greeting is from him, not from the king.
Amb. May it please your majesty, to give us
leave

Freely to render what we have in charge;

Exe. It follows then, the cat must stay at Or shall we sparingly show you far off

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Cant. True: therefore doth heaven divide
The state of man in divers functions,
Setting endeavour in continual motion:
To which is fixed, as an aim or butt,
Obedience: for so work the honey bees;
Creatures, that, by a rule in nature, teach
The act of order to a peopled kingdom.
They have a king, and officers of sorts: §
Where some, like magistrates, correct at home;
Others, like merchants, venture trade abroad;
Others, like soldiers, armed in their stings,
Make boot upon the summer's velvet buds;
Which pillage they with merry march bring
To the tent-royal of their emperor : [home
Who, busied in his majesty, surveys
The singing masons building roofs of gold;
The civil citizens kneading up the honey;
The poor mechanic porters crowding in
Their heavy burdens at his narrow gate;
The sad-ey'd justice, with his surly hum,
Delivering o'er to executors ¶ pale
The lazy yawning drone. I this infer,-
That many things, having full reference
To one consent, may work contrariously ;
As many arrows, loosed several ways,
Fly to one mark;

As many several ways meet in one town;
As many fresh streams run in one self sea :
As many lines close in the dial's centre;
So many a thousand actions, once afoot,
End in one purpose, and be all well borne
Without defeat. Therefore to France,

liege.

Divide your happy England into four;
Whereof take you one quarter into France,
And you withal shall make all Gallia shake.
If we, with thrice that power left at home,

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The Dauphin's meaning, and our embassy?

K. Hen. We are no tyrant, but a Christian
king;

Unto whose grace our passion is as subject,
As are our wretches fetter'd in our prisons:
Therefore, with frank and with uncurbed plain-
ness,

Tell us the Dauphin's mind.

Amb. Thus then, in few.

Your highness, lately sending into France,
Did claim some certain dukedoms, in the right
Of your great predecessor, king Edward the
third.

In answer of which claim, the prince our

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That all the courts of France will be disturb'd
With chases. And we understand him well,
How he comes o'er us with our wilder days,
Not measuring what use we made of them.
We never valu'd this poor seat of England;
And therefore, living hence, did give ourself
To barbarous licence; As 'tis ever common,
That men are merriest when they are from
home.

But, tell the Dauphin, I will keep my state;
Be like a king, and show my sail of greatness,
When I do rouse me in my throne of France;

Dominion.

† An ancient dance. This story is by no means credible: the great offers made by France, to avert the war, shew that they cutertained a just idea of Henry's character.Hume.

For that I bave laid by my majesty,
And plodded like a man for working days;
But I will rise there with so full a glory,
That I will dazzle all the eyes of France,
Yea, strike the Dauphin blind to look on us.
And tell the pleasant prince, this mock of his
Hath turn'd his balls to gun-stones; and his
soul
[geance
Shall stand sore charged for the wasteful ven-
That shall fly with them: for many a thousand
widows
[bands;
Shall this his mock mock out of their dear hus-
Mock mothers from their sons, mock castles
down:

And some are yet ungotten, and unborn,
That shall have cause to curse the Dauphin's

scorn.

But this lies all within the will of God,
To whom I do appeal, and, in whose name,
Tell you the Dauphin I am coming on,
To venge me as I may, and to put forth
My rightful hand in a well-hallow'd cause.
So, get you hence in peace; and tell the Dau-
His jest will savour but of shallow wit, [phin,
When thousands weep, more than did laugh

at it.

Convey them with safe conduct.-Fare you well.
[Exeunt AMBASSADORS.
Exe. This was a merry message.
K. Hen. We hope to make the sender blush
at it.
[Descends from his Throne.
Therefore, my lords, omit no happy hour,
That may give furtherance to our expedition :
For we have now no thought in us but France;
Save those to God, that run before our business.
Therefore, let our proportions for these wars
Be soon collected; and all things thought upon,
That may, with reasonable swiftness, add
More feathers to our wings; for, God before,
We'll chide this Dauphin at his father's door.
Therefore, let every man now task his thought,
That this fair action may on foot be brought.

ACT II. Enter CHORUS.

[Exeunt.

Chor. Now, all the youth of England are on fire,

And silken dalliance in the wardrobe lies:
Now thrive the armourers, and honour's thought
Reigns solely in the breast of every man :
They sell the pasture now, to buy the horse;
Following the mirror of all Christian kings,
With winged heels, as English Mercuries.
For now sits Expectation in the air;
And hides a sword,+ from hilts unto the point,
With crowns imperial, crowns, and coronets,
Promis'd to Harry and his followers.
The French, advis'd by good intelligence
Of this most dreadful preparation,
Shake in their fear; and with pale policy
Seek to divert the English purposes.
O England! model to thy inward greatness,
Like little body with a mighty heart,
What might'st thou do, that honour would thee do,
Were all thy children kind and natural !
But see thy fault! France hath in thee found out
A nest of hollow bosoms, which he fills
With treacherous crowns: and three corrupted

men,
One, Richard earl of Cambridge; and the second,
Henry lord Scroop of Marsham; and the third,
Sir Thomas Grey knight of Northumberland,
Have, for the gilt ý of France, (O guilt, indeed!)

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Linger your patience on; and well digest
The abuse of distance, while we force a play.
The sum is paid; the traitors are agreed;
The king is set from London; and the scene
Is now transported, gentles, to Southampton :
There is the playhouse now, there must you sit:
And thence to France shall we convey you safe,
And bring you back, charming the narrow seas
To give you gentle pass: for, if we may,
We'll not offend one stomach with our play.
But, till the king come forth, and not till then,
Unto Southampton do we shift our scene.
[Erit.

SCENE 1.-The same.-Eastcheap.
Enter NYM and BARDOLPH.
Bard. Well met, corporal Nym.
Nym. Good morrow, lieutenant Bardolph.
Bard. What, are ancient Pistol and you
friends yet?

Nym. For my part, I care not: I say little : but when time shall serve, there shall be smiles;-but that shall be as it may, I dare It is a simple one: but what though? it will not fight; but I will wink, and hold out mine iron: toast cheese: and it will endure cold as another man's sword will: and there's the humour of it.

Bard. I will bestow a breakfast, to make you friends; and we'll be all three sworn brothers to France: let it be so, good corporal Nym.

Nym. 'Faith, I will live so long as I may, that's the certain of it; and when I cannot live any longer, I will do as I may: that is my rest, that is the rendezvous of it.

Bard. It is certain, corporal, that he is married to Nell Quickly; and, certainly, she did you wrong; for you were troth-plight to her.

Nym. I cannot tell; things must be as they may men may sleep, and they may have their throats about them at that time; and, some say, knives have edges. It must be as it may though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod. There must be conclusions. Well, I cannot tell.

Enter PISTOL and Mrs. QUICKLY.

Bard. Here comes ancient Pistol, and his wife :-good corporal, be patient here.-How now, mine host Pistol?

Pist. Base tike, + call'st thou me host? Now, by this hand I swear, I scorn the term; Nor shall my Nell keep lodgers.

Quick. No, by my troth, not long for we cannot lodge and board a dozen or fourteen gentlewomen, that live honestly by the prick of their needles, but it will be thought we keep a bawdy-house straight. [NYM draws his sword.] O well-a-day, Lady, if he be not drawn now! O Lord! here's corporal Nym's-now shall we have wilful adultery and murder committed. Good lieutenant Bardolph,-good corporal, offer nothing here.

Nym. Pish I

Pist. Pish for thee, Iceland dog! thou prickeared cur of Iceland!

Quick. Good corporal Nym, show the valour of a man, and put up thy sword. Nym. Will you shog off? I would have you solus. [Sheathing his sword. Pist. Solus, egregious dog? O viper vile! The solus in thy most marvellous face; The solus in thy teeth, and in thy throat, And in thy hateful lungs, yea, in thy maw, And, which is worse, within thy nasty mouth! perdy; t I do retort the solus in thy bowels : For I can take, and Pistol's cock is up, And flashing fire will follow.

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Nym. I am not Barbason; you cannot con- [ quickly to Sir John: Ah! poor heart! he is so jure me. I have a humour to knock you in- shaked of a burning quotidian tertiau, that it is differently well: If you grow foul with me most lamentable to behold. Sweet men, come Pistol, I will scour you with my rapier, as I to him. may, in fair terms: if you would walk off, I would prick your guts a little, in good terms, as I may and that's the humour of it.

Pist. O braggard vile, and damned furious wight!

The grave doth gape, and doting death is near;
Therefore exhale. [PISTOL and NYM draw.
Bard. Hear me, hear me what I say :-he
that strikes the first stroke, I'll run him up to
the hilts, as I am a soldier.
[Draws.
Pist. An oath of mickle might; and fury
shall abate.

Give me thy fist, thy fore-foot to me give;
Thy spirits are most tall.

Nym. I will cut thy throat, one time or other, in fair terms; that is the humour of it.

Pist. Coup le gorge, that's the word ?-I thee defy again.

O hound of Crete, think'st thou my spouse to get?

No; to the spital go,

And from the powdering tub of infamy
Fetch forth the lazar kite of Cressid's kind, ||
Doll Tear-sheet she by name, and her espouse:
I have, and I will hold, the quondam ¶ Quickly
For the only she; and-Pauca, there's enough.
Enter the BOY.

Roy. Mine host Pistol, you must come to my master, and you, hostess ;-he is very sick, and would to bed.-Good Bardolph, put thy nose between his sheets, and do the office of a warming-pan: 'faith, he's very ill.

Bard. Away, you rogue.

Quick. By my troth, he'll yield the crow a pudding one of these days: the king has killed his heart.-Good husband, come home presently, [Exeunt Mrs. QUICKLY and BOY. Bard. Come, shall I make you two friends? We must to France together; Why, the devil, should we keep knives to cut one another's throats?

Pist. Let floods o'erswell, and fiends for food howl on!

Nym. You'll pay me the eight shillings I won of you at betting?

Pist. Base is the slave that pays.

Nym. That now I will have; that's the humour of it.

Pist. As manhood shall compound: Push home.

Bard. By this sword, he that makes the first thrust, I'll kill him: by this sword, I will. Pist. Sword is an oath, and oaths must have

their course.

Bard. Corporal Nym, an thou wilt be friends, be friends: as thou wilt not, why then be enemies with me too. Pr'ythee, put up.

Nym. I shall have my eight shillings I won of you at betting.

Pist. A noble shalt thou have, and present

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I'll live by Nym, and Nym shall live by me :-
Is not this just ?-for I shall sutler be
Unto the camp, and profits will accrue.
Give me thy hand.

Nym. I shall have my noble ?

Pist. In cash most justly paid.

Nym. Well then, that's the bumour of it.

Re-enter Mrs. QUICKLY.

Nym. The king hath run bad humours on the knight, that's the even of it.

Pist. Nym, thou hast spoke the right; His heart is fracted and corroborate.

Nym. The king is a good king: but it must be as it may; he passes some humours, and careers.

Pist. Let us condole the knight; for, lambkins, we will live. [Exeunt.

SCENE II.-Southampton.-A Council-
Chamber.

Enter EXETER, BEDFORD, and WESTMORE

LAND.

Bed. 'Fore God, his grace is bold, to trust these traitors.

Exe. They shall be apprehended by and by. West. How smooth and even they do bear themselves!

As if allegiance in their bosoms sat,
Crowned with faith, and constant loyalty.

Bed. The king hath note of all that they inteud,

By interception which they dream not of.
Ere. Nay, but the man that was his bed-
Whom he hath cloy'd and grac'd with princely
favours,

fellow,

That he should, for a foreign purse, so sell
His sovereign's life to death and treachery!
Trumpet sounds. Enter King HENRY, SCROOP,

CAMBRIDGE, GREY, Lords, and Attentants. K. Hen. Now sits the wind fair, and we will aboard.

My lord of Cambridge,-and my kind lord of Masham,

And you, my gentle knight,———give me your thoughts:

Think you not, that the powers we bear with us, Will cut their passage through the force of France,

Doing the execution, and the act,

For which we have in head assembled them? Scroop. No doubt, my liege, if each man do

his best.

K. Hen. I doubt not that since we are well

persuaded,

We carry not a heart with us from hence,
That grows not in a fair consent with our's:
Nor leave not one behind, that doth not wish
Success and conquest to attend on us.

Cam. Never was monarch better fear'd and lov'd, [subject, Than is your majesty; there's not, I think, a That sits in heart-grief and uneasiness Under the sweet shade of your government.

Grey. Even those, that were your father's enemies,

Have steep'd their galls in honey; and do serve

you

With hearts create + of duty and of zeal.

K. Hen. We therefore have great cause of thankfulness;

And shall forget the office of our hand,
Sooner than quittance of desert and merit,
According to the weight and worthiness.

Scroop. So service shall with steeled sinews

toil;

And labour shall refresh itself with hope,
To do your grace incessant services.
K. Hen. We judge no less.-Uncle of Exeter,
Enlarge the man committed yesterday,

Quick. As ever you came of women, come in That rail'd against our person: we consider,

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It was excess of wine that set him on;
And, on his more advice, § we pardon him.

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