Whereof take you one quarter into France,
And you withal shall make ali Gallia shake.
If we, with thrice that power left at home,
Cannot defend our own door from the dog,-
Let us be worried; and our nation lose
The name of hardiness, and policy. [Dauphin.

LAGJEL

K. Henry. Call in the inessengers sent from the
Now are we well resolv'd: and, -by God's help;
And yours, the noble sinews of our power,-
France being ours, 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 dukedoms;
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,
Not worshipp'd with a waxen epitaph.

Enter Ambassadors of France.
Now we are well prepar'd to know the pleasure
Of our fair cousin Dauphin; for, we hear,
Your greeting is from him, not from the king.
Amb. May't please your majesty, to give us leave
Freely to render what we have in charge;
Or shall we sparingly shew you far off
The Dauphin's meaning, and our embassy?
K. Henry. Weare no tyrant, but a Christianking:
Unto whose grace our passion is as subject,
As are our wretches fetter'd in our prisons:
Therefore, with frank and with uncurbed plainness,
Tell us the Dauphin's mind.

Amb. Thus then, in few.

Your highness, lately sending into France,

Tell him, he hath made a match with such a

wrangler,

That all the courts of France will be disturb'd
With3 chaces. And we understand him well,
5 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,
10 That men are merriest when they are from home
But tell the Dauphin, -I will keep my state;
Be like a king, and shew my sail of greatness,
When I do rouse me in my throne of France:
For that I have laid by my majesty,

15 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
20 Hath turu'd his balls to gun-stones'; and his soul
Shall stand sore charged for the wasteful vengeance
That shall fly with them: for many a thousand
widows

Shall thishis mock mock out of their dear husbands;
25 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,

30 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 Dauphin,
His jest will savour but of shallow wit,
[it.-

Did claim some certain dukedoms, in the right 35 When thousands weep, more than did laugh at

Convey them with safe conduct. Fare you well. [Exeunt Ambasuhrs.

Of your great predecessor, king Edward the third.
In answer of which claim, the prince our master
Says, that you savour too much of your youth;
And bids you be advis'd, there's nought in France,

Ere. This was a merry message.

K. Henry. We hope to make the senderblush at it.

Than can be with a nimble-galliard won;
You cannot revel into dukedoms there:

He therefore sends you, meeter for your spirit,
This tun of treasure; and, in lieu of this,

Desires you, let the dukedoms, that you claim,

40 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

Hear no more of you. This the Dauphin speaks. 45 Be soon collected; and all things thought upon,

K. Henry. What treasure, uncle?

That may, with reasonable swiftness, add

Ere. Tennis-balls, my liege.

[with us;

K.Henry. We are glad the Dauphinis so pleasant

His present, and your pains, we thank you for:

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,

We will, in France, by God's grace, play a set,

When we have match'd our rackets to these balls, 50 That this fair action may on foot be brought.

Shall strike his father's crown into the hazard.

1

[Exeunt.

2 A

Empery signifies dominion, but it is now an obsolete word, though formerly in general use. galliard was an ancient dance, now obsolete. Chace is a term at tennis. So is the hazard; a place in the tennis-court into which the ball is sometimes struck. * i. e. not in the court, the place in which he is now speaking. * When ordnance was first used, they discharged balls, not of iron, but of stone.

Cho.

Enter Chorus.

NOW all the youth

of England are on

Bard. What, are ancient Pis yet? Nym. For my part, I care no when time shall serve, there sh

will wink, and hold out mine i one; but what though? it will it will endure cold as another and there's the humour of it.

fire, And silken dalliance in the wardrobe lies; Now thrive the armourers, and honour's thought 5 that shall be as it may. I da 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,

10 Bard. I will bestow a break friends; and we'll be all three France': let it be so, good cor Nym. Faith, I will live so lo the certain of it; and, when 15 longer, I will do as I may: tha is the rendezvous of it.

Like little body with a mighty heart,

Bard. It is certain, corporal to Nell Quickly: and, certai wrong; for you were troth-plig

What might'st thou do, that honour would thee do, 20 Nym. I cannot tell; things mu

Were all thy children kind and natural !

But see thy fault! France hath in thee found out
A nest of hollow bosoms, which she fills [men, -
With treacherous crowns: and three corrupted

Men may sleep, and they may about them at that time; and, have edges. It must be as it ma be a tir'd mare, yet she will pla

Masham

One, Richard earl of Cambridge; and the second, 25 conclusions. Well, I cannot te

Henry lord Scroop of Mashan; and the third,
Sir Thomas Grey, knight of Northumberland,-
Have for the gilt of France (O guilt, indeed!)

Enter Pistol and 2.

Bard. Here comes ancient P

Confirm'd conspiracy with fearful France;

-good corporal, be patient mine host Pistol?

And by their hands this' grace of kings must die, 30 Pist. Base tyke, call'st thou

(If hell and treason hold their promises)

Now, by this hand I swear, I sc Nor shall my Nell keep lodger Quick. No, by my troth, not not lodge and board a dozen o 35 women, that live honestly by needles, but it will be thought house straight.-O well-a-day, drawn now! We shall see wi

Ere he take ship for France, and in Southampton.
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 play-house 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. [Exit.

SCENE I.

Before Quickly's house in East-cheap.
Enter Corporal Nym, and Lieutenant Bardolph.
Bard. Well met, corporal,
Nym. Good morrow, lieutenant Bardolph.

murder committed.

40 Bard. Good lieutenant, goo
nothing here.
Nym. Pish!

Pist. Pish for thee, Iceland
ear'd cur of Iceland!
45 Quick. Good corporal Nym,
of a man, and put up thy sword.
Nym. Will you shogto off? I
solus.

Pist. Solus, egregious dog! C 50 The plus in thy most marvellou

Mr. Tollet says, that in the horse armoury in the Tower of London, Edwa sented with two crowns on his sword, alluding to the two kingdoms, France and L which he was crowned heir. Perhaps the poet took the thought from this represent which in our author generally signifies a display of gold, in the present instance mean 3 i. e. he who does great honour to the title. By the same kind of phraseology the u is called the Vice of kings, i. e. the opprobrium of them. *To force a play, is to p compelling many circumstances into a narrow compass. That is, you shall pass the qualms of sea-sickness. At this scene begins the connection of this play with King Henry IV. Dr. Johnson thinks we should read, We'll all go sworn brothers to all be sworn brothers in France. * Tike is a small kind of dog. We should read it is Pistol to whom he addresses himself. Meaning, will you march, or go off?

2

The solus in thy teeth, and in thy throat,
And in thy hateful lungs, yea, in thy maw, perdy;
And, which is worse, within thy nasty mouth!
I do retort the solus in thy bowels:

For I can talk; and Pistol's cock is up,
And flashing fire will follow.

Pist. Sword is an oath, and oaths must ha their course.

Bard. Corporal Nyın, an thou wilt be friend be friends: an thou wilt not, why then be en 5 mies with me too. Pry'thee put up.

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

Pist. A noble shalt thou have, and present pay And liquor likewise will I give to thee,

Nym. I am not Barbason'; you cannot conjure me. I have an humour to knock you indifferently well: If you grow foul with me, Pistol, I will scour you with my rapier, as I may, in fair terms: 10 And friendship shall combine, and brotherhood

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.

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.

Pist. Obraggard vile, and damned furious wight!
The grave doth gape, and doating death is near; 15 Nym. I shall have my noble ?
Therefore exhale.

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.

Pist. In cash most justly paid.

Nym. Well then, that's the humour of it.
Re-enter Quickly.

Quick. As ever you came of women, come i

Pist. An oath of mickle might; and fury shall 20 quickly to sir John: Ah, poor heart! he is

abate.

shak'd of a burning quotidian tertian, that it most lainentable to behold. Sweet men, com to him.

Nym. The king hath run bad humours on th 25 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 b as it may; he passes some humours and careers. 30 Pist. Let us condole the knight; for, lambkins [Exeune

35

we will live.

SCENE II.
Southampton.

Enter Exeter, Bedford, and Westmoreland.
Bed. 'Fore God, his grace is bold, to trust thes

traitors!

40 As if allegiance in their bosoms sat,
Crowned with faith and constant loyalty.
Bed. The king hath note of all that they intend
By interception which they dream not of.

Ere. Nay, but the man that was his bedfellow [Exit Quickly. 45 Whom he hath cloy'd and grae'd with princel favours,

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?

That he should, for a foreign purse, so sell
His sovereign's life to death and treachery!
[Trumpets sound

Pist. Let floods o'erswell, and fiends for food 50 Enter the King, Scroop, Cambridge, Grey, an 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 hu-55 mour of it.

Pist. As manhood shall compound; Push home. [Draw. Bard. By this sword, he that makes the first thrust, I'll kill him; by this sword, I will.

abroad.

Attendants.

K. Henry. Now sits the wind fair, and we wi
My lord of Cambridge, and my kind lord
Masham,
[thoughts
And you, my gentle knight, give ine you
Think you not, that the powers we bear with u
Will cut their passage through the force of France
Doing the execution, and the act,

60 For which we have in head' assembled them?

Barbason is the name of a dæmon mentioned in the Merry Wives of Windsor. * The famili

AL

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

[lov'd,

ow, I know

My lord of Westmoreland, We wili aboard to-night.-W tlemen?

5 What see you in those paper So much complexion?-Look

Their cheeks are paper.-W

there,

That hath so cowarded and ch

Cam. Never was monarch better fear'd and
Than is your majesty; there's not, I think, a 10 Out of appearance?

subject,

That sits in heart-grief and uneasiness

Under the sweet shade of your government.

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

mies,
Havesteep'd their galls in honey; and doserve you
With hearts create of duty and of zeal.

K. Henry. 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.

15

Cam. I do confess my fault:
And do submit me to your hig

Grey. Scroop. To which we
K. Henry. Th

The mercy, tha

By your own counsel is suppre
but late,
For your own reasons turn int
You must not dare, for shame,
As dogs upon their masters, wo
20 See you, my princes, and my
These Englishmonsters! Mylor
You know, how apt our love w

Scroop. So service shall with steeled sinews toil; Tofurnish hun with all apperti

And labour shall refresh itself with hope,
To do your grace incessant services.

Belonging to his honour; and 25 Hath, for a few light crowns, li And sworn unto the practices o To kill us here in Hampton: t This knight, no less for bount Than Cambridge is,-hath But O!

Grey. Sir, you shew great mercy, if you give

him life,

K. Henry. We judge no less.-Uncle of Exeter,
Enlarge the man committed yesterday,
That rail'd against our person: we consider,
It was excess of wine that set him on;
And, on his more advice2, we pardon him.

30

Scroop. That's inercy, but too much security:
Let him be punish'd, sovereign; lest example
Breed, by his sufferance, more of such a kind.

K. Henry. O, let us yet be merciful.
Cam. So may your highness, and yet punish too. 35 That almost might'st have coin'

What shall I say to thee, lord S
Ingrateful, savage, and inhuma
Thou, that didst bear the key
That knew'st the very bottoin c

Would'st thou have practis'd'or
May it be possible, that foreign
Could out of thee extractone sp
That might annoy my finger? "I
40 That, though the truth of it star
As black from white, my eye
Working so grossly in a natural
Treason, and murder, ever kept
As two yoke-devils sworn to eit
45 That admiration did not whoop
But thou, 'gainst all proportion,
Wonder, to wait on treason, and
And whatsoever cunning fiend it
That wrought upon the so prep

W

After the taste of much correction.

K. Henry. Alas, your too much love and care
of me

Are heavy orisons 'gainst this poor wretch.
If little faults, proceeding on distemper, [eye,
Shall not be wink'd at, how shall we stretch our
When capital crimes, chew'd, swallow'd, and di.

bested,

Appear before us?-We'll yet enlarge that man,
Though Cambridge, Scroop, and Grey,-in their

dear care

And tender preservation of our person, -
Would have him punish'd. And now to our 50 He hath got the voice in hell for

And other devils, that suggest by
Do botch and bungle up damnati
With patches, colours,
and wi
From glistering semblances of pie
55 But he, that temper'd thee, bade
Gave thee noinstance why thou sho
Should with his lion gait walk the
Unless to dub thee with the name
If that same dæmon, that hath gul
60 He might return to vasty Tartar'
And tell the legions, -I can never

1i. e. made up of duty and zeal. tion. e. living. 2 On his return to more coolness of mind. a picture. To stand off is étre relevé, to be prominent to the eye, as the i. e. palpably, i. e. Tartarus, the fabled place of future punishmen

:

1

Now, lords, for France; the enterprize whereo
Shall be to you, as us, like glorious.
We doubt not of a fair and lucky war;
Since God so graciously hath brought to light
10 This dangerous treason, lurking in our way,
To hinder our beginnings, we doubt not now,
But every rubis smoothed in our way.
Then, forth, dear countrymen; let us deliver
Our puissance into the hand of God,

A soul so easy as that Englishman's.
Oh, how hast thou with jealousy infected
The sweetness of affiance! Shew men dutiful?
Why, so didstthon: Seemthey grave and learned?
Why, so didst thou: Come they of noble family? 5
Why, so didst thou: Seem they religious?
Why, so didst thou: Orare they spare in diet;
Free from gross passion, or of mirth, or anger;
Constant in spirit, not swerving with the blood;
Garnish'd and deck'd in modest complement';
Not working with the eye, without the ear,
And, but in purged judgment, trusting neither2?
Such, and so finely boulted', didst thou seem:
And thus thy fall hath left a kind of blot,
To mark the full-fraught man, the best endu'd,
With some suspicion. I will weep for thee;
For this revolt of thine, methinks, is like
Another fall of man. -Their faults are open,
Arrest them to the answer of the law; -
And God acquit them of their practices!

Ere. I arrest thee of high treason, by the name of Richard earl of Cambridge.

I arrest thee of high treason, by the name of Henry lord Scroop of Masham.

15 Putting it straight in expedition.
Chearly to sea, the signs of war advance:
No king of England, if not king of France.

20

SCENE III.

Quickly's House in Eastcheap.

[Exeunt

Enter Pistol, Nym, Bardolph, Boy, and Quickly-
Quickly. Prythee, honey-sweet husband, let me

I arrest thee of high treason, by the name of 25 bring thee to Staines.

Thomas Grey, knight of Northumberland.

veins;

Pist. No: for my manly heart doth yearn.Bardolph, be blith;-Nym, rouse thy vaulting [dead, Boy, bristle thy courage up; for Falstaff he is [duce: 30 And we must yearn therefore.

Scroop. Our purposes God justly hath discover'd;
And I repent my fault, more than my death;
Which I beseech your highness to forgive,
Although my body pay the price of it.

Cam. For me, the gold of France did not se-
Although I did admit it as a motive,
The sooner to effect what I intended:
But God be thanked for prevention;
Which I in sufferance heartily will rejoice,
Beseeching God, and you, to pardon me.

Grey. Never did faithful subjects more rejoice
At the discovery of most dangerous treason,
Than I do at this hour joy o'er myself,
Prevented from a damned enterprize :
My fault, but not my body, pardon, sovereign.
K. Henry. God quit you in his mercy! Hear

your sentence.

You have conspir'd against our royal person,

Bard. Would, I were with him, wheresome'er he is, either in heaven, or in hell! Quick. Nay, sure, he's not in hell; he's in Arthur's bosom, if ever man went to Arthur's bo

35 som.

'A made a finer end, and went away, an it had been any chrisom' child: 'a parted even just between twelve and one, e'en at turning o'the tide': for after I saw him fumble with the sheets', and play with flowers, and smile upon his fingers' ends, 401 knew there was but one way; for his nose was as sharp as a pen, and 'a babbled of green fields.How, now, Sir John? quoth I: what, man! be of good cheer. So'a cried out-God, God, God! three or four times: now I, to comfort him, bid

Join'd with an enemy proclaim'd, and from his 45 him 'a should not think of God; Ihop'd, there was

no need to trouble himself with such thoughts I put my hand into the bed, and felt them, and yet: So 'a bade me lay more cloaths on his feet : they were as cold as any stone; then I felt to his 50 knees, and so upward, and upward, and all was as cold as any stone.

coffers
Receiv'd the golden earnest of our death; [ter,
Wherein you wouldhave sold your king to slaugh
His princes and his peers to servitude,
His subjects to oppression and contempt,
And his whole kingdom unto desolation.
Touching our person, seek we no revenge;
But we our kingdom's safety must so tender,
Whose ruin you three sought, that to her laws
We do deliver you. Get you therefore hence, 155

Nym. They say, he cried out of sack.
Quick. Ay, that 'a did.
Bard. And of women.

Quick. Nay, that 'a did not.

Complement has in this instance the same sense as in Love's Labour's Lost, Act I. Complements, in the age of Shakspeare, meant the same as accomplishments in the present one. say of Scroop, that he was a cautious man, who knew that a specious appearance was deceitful and * The king means to therefore did not trust the air or look of any man till he had tried him by enquiry and conversation. 3 i. e. refined or sifted from all faults. *i. e. marked by the blot he speaks of in the preceding line. The old quarto has it, crisomb'd child. The chrysom was the white cloth put on the new baptised child. The child itself was also sometimes called a chrysom. 'It was a common opinion among the