KING HENRY the Fifth. 'DUKE OF GLOUCESTER, DUKE OF BEdford, } brothers to the King. DUKE OF EXETER, uncle to the King. DUKE OF YORK, cousin to the King. EARLS OF SALISBURY, Westmoreland, and WarwWICK. ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY. BISHOP OF ELY. EARL OF CAMBRIDGE. LORD SCROOP. SIR THOMAS GREY. SIR THOMAS ERPINGHAM, GOWER, FLUELLEN, MACMORRIS, JAMY, officers in King Henry's army. BATES, COURT, WILLIAMS, soldiers in the same. PISTOL, NYM, Bardolph. Boy. S A Herald. CHARLES the Sixth, King of France. LEWIS, the Dauphin. DUKES OF BURGUNDY, ORLEANS, and BOURBON. The Constable of France. RAMBURES and GRANDPRÉ, French Lords. Governor of Harfleur. MONTJOY, a French Herald. Ambassadors to the King of England. ISABEL, Queen of France. KATHARINE, daughter to Charles and Isabel. ALICE, a lady attending on her. Hostess of a tavern in Eastcheap, formerly Mistress Quickly, and now married to Pistol. Lords, Ladies, Officers, Soldiers, Citizens, Messengers, and Attendants. Chorus. SCENE: England; afterwards France. The Life of KING HENRY V. PROLOGUE. Enter Chorus. Chor. O for a muse of fire, that would ascend A kingdom for a stage, princes to act And let us, ciphers to this great accompt, Suppose within the girdle of these walls Are now confined two mighty monarchies, 20 20 Piece out our imperfections with your thoughts; And make imaginary puissance; Think, when we talk of horses, that you see them Who prologue-like your humble patience pray, ACT FIRST. Scene I. 30 [Exit. London. An ante-chamber in the King's palace. Enter the Archbishop of Canterbury, and the Cant. My lord, I'll tell you; that self bill is urged, Ely. But how, my lord, shall we resist it now? Cant. It must be thought on. If it pass against us, ΙΟ Full fifteen earls and fifteen hundred knights, Of indigent faint souls past corporal toil, A thousand pounds by the year: thus runs the bill. Ely. This would drink deep. Cant. 'Twould drink the cup and all. 20 Ely. But what prevention? Cant. The king is full of grace and fair regard. Ely. And whipp'd the offending Adam out of him, To envelope and contain celestial spirits. Never came reformation in a flood, With such a heady currance, scouring faults; So soon did lose his seat, and all at once, We are blessed in the change. Cant. Hear him but reason in divinity, And all-admiring with an inward wish 30 You would desire the king were made a prelate: 40 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 The Gordian knot of it he will unloose, And the mute wonder lurketh in men's ears, Which is a wonder how his grace should glean it, His companies unletter'd, rude and shallow, Any retirement, any sequestration From open haunts and popularity. Ely. The strawberry grows underneath the nettle, Ely. And therefore we must needs admit the means But, my good lord, Urged by the commons? Doth his majesty Incline to it, or no? 50 60 70 Cant. He seems indifferent, |