If it pass

Cmnt. It must be thought on.

Ely. The strawberry grows underneath the nettle, against us

And wholesome berries thrive and ripen best We lose the better half of our possession: Neighboured by fruit of baser quality: For all the temporal lands which men devout And so the prince obscured his contemplation By testament have given to the church

Under the veil of wildness; which, no doubt, Would they strip from us: being valued thus,– Grew like the summer-grass, fastest by night; As much as would maintain, to the King's honour, Unseen, yet crescive in his faculty. Full fifteen earls and fifteen hundred knights, Cant. It must be so : for miracles are ceased; Six thousand and two hundred good esquires; And therefore we must needs admit the means And, to relief of lazars and weak age,

How things are perfected.
Of indigent faint souls past corporal toil,

Ely. But, my good lord,
A hundred almshouses right well supplied: How now for mitigation of this bill
And to the coffers of the King beside

Urged by the commons ? Doth his majesty A thousand pounds by the year. Thus runs the Incline to it, or no? bill.

Cant. He seems indifferent: Ely. This would drink deep.

Or rather swaying more upon our part
Cant. "Twould drink the cup and all. Than cherishing the exhibiters against us:
Ely. But what prevention ?

For I have made an offer to his majesty, -
Cant. The King is full of grace and fair regard. Upon our spiritual convocation,
Ely. And a true lover of the holy church. And in regard of causes now in hand,

Cant. The courses of his yeath promised it not. Which I have opened to his grace at large, The breath no sooner left his father's body As touching France, to give a greater sum But that his wildness, mortified in him,

Than ever at one time the clergy yet Seemed to die too: yea, at that very moment Did to his predecessors part withal. Consideration like an angel came,

Ely. How did this offer seem received, my y lord ? And whipped the offending Adam out of him; Cant. With good acceptance of his majesty : Leaving his body as a paradise,

Save that there was not time enough to hear To envelop and contain celestial spirits.

(As I perceived his grace would fain have done) Never was such a sudden scholar made :

'The severals and unhidden passages Never came reformation in a flood,

Of his true titles to some certain dukedoms; With such a heady current, scouring faults: And generally, to the crown and seat of France, Nor never hydra-headed wilfulness

Derived from Edward, his great-grandfather. So soon did lose his seat, and all at once,

Ely. What was the impediment that broke As in this King.

this off? Ely. We are blesséd in the change. Cant. The French ambassador, upon that Cant. Hear him but reason in divinity,

instant, And, all admiring, with an inward wish

Craved audience : and the hour, I think, is come You would desire the King were made a prelate: To give him hearing. Is it four o'clock? Hear him debate of commonwealth affairs,

Ely.

It is. You would say it hath been all-in-all his study: Cant. Then go we in to know his embassy : List his discourse of war, and you shall hear Which I could, with a ready guess, declare A fearful battle rendered you in music :

Before the Frenchman speak a word of it. Turn him to any cause of policy,

Ely. I'll wait upon you; and I long to hear it. The Gordian knot of it he will unloose

[Exeunt. Familiar as his garter : that, when he speaks, The air, a chartered libertine, is still, And the mute wonder lurketh in men's ears,

Scene II.-The same. A Room of state in the To steal his sweet and honeyed sentences. So that the art and practic part of life

Enter King Henry, Gloster, Bedford, Exeter, Must be the mistress to this theoric:

WARWICK, WESTMORLAND, and Attendants. Which is a wonder how his grace should glean it, K. Hen. Where is my gracious lord of CanSince his addiction was to courses vain;

terbury?
His companies unlettered, rude, and shallow; Exe. Not here in presence.
His hours filled up with riots, banquets, sports: K. Hen. Send for him, good uncle.
And never noted in him any study,

West. Shall we call in the ambassador, my liege? Any retirement, any sequestration

K. Hen. Not yet, my cousin : we would be From open haunts and popularity.

resolved,

same.

Who on the French ground played a tragedy, When all her chivalry hath been in France, Making defeat on the full power of France; And she a mourning widow of hier nobles, Whiles his most mighty father on a hill

She hath herself not only well defended, Stood smiling to behold his lion's whelp But taken, and impounded as a stray, Forage in blood of French nobility.

The King of Scots; whom she did send to France, O noble English, that could entertain

To fill King Edward's fame with prisoner kings, With half their forces the full pride of France, And make your chronicle as rich with praise And let another half stand laughing by,

As is the ooze and bottom of the sea All out of work and cold for action!

With sunken wreck and sumless treasuries. Ely. Awake remembrance of these valiant dead, West. But there 's a saying very old and true, And with your puissant arm renew their feats.

If that you will France win,
You are their heir, you sit upon their throne;

Then with Scotland first begin.
The blood and courage that renownéd them
Runs in your veins: and my thrice-puissant liege For once the eagle England being in prey,
Is in the very May-morn of his youtlı,

To her unguarded nest the weasel Scot
Ripe for exploits and mighty enterprises. Comes sneaking, and so sucks her princely eggs :
Exe. Your brother kings and monarchs of the Playing the mouse in absence of the cat,
earth

To spoil and havock more than she can eat. Do all expect that you should rouse yourself, Exe. It follows, then, the cat must stay at home: As did the former lions of your blood.

Yet that is but a cursed necessity; West. They know your grace hath cause, and Since we have locks to safeguard necessaries, means, and might.

And pretty traps to catch the petty thieves. So hath your highness : never King of England While that the arméd hand doth fight abroad, Had nobles richer and more loyal subjects; The advised head defends itself at home : Whose hearts have left their bodies here in For government, though high and low and lower, England,

Put into parts, doth keep in one concent; And lie pavilioned in the fields of France. Congruing in a full and natural close, Cant. O let their bodies follow, my dear liege,

Like music. With blood and sword and fire, to win your right.

Cant. True: therefore doth heaven divide In aid whereof, we of the spiritualty

The state of man in divers functions, Will raise your higliness such a mighty sum Setting endeavour in continual motion As never did the clergy at one time

To which is fixéd, as an aim or butt, Bring in to any of your ancestors.

Obedience. For so work the honey becs : K. Hen. We must not only arm to invade the Creatures that, by a rule in nature, teach French,

The act of order to a peopled kingdom. But lay down our proportions to defend

They have a king and officers of sorts : Against the Scot, who will make road upon us Where some, like magistrates, correct at liome; With all advantages.

Others, like merchants, venture trade abroad; Cant. They of those marches, gracious sovereign, Others, like soldiers, armed in their stings, Shall be a wall sufficient to defend

Make boot upon the summer's velvet buds;
Our inland from the pilfering borderers. Which pillage they with merry march bring home
K. Hen. We do not mean the coursing snatchers To the tent-royal of their emperor :
only,

Who, busied in his majesty, surveys
But fear the main intendment of the Scot, The singing masons building roofs of gold;
Who hath been still a giddy neiglıbour to us : The civil citizens kneading up the honey;
For you shall read that my great-grandfather The poor mechanic porters crowding in
Never went with his forces into France,

Their heavy burdens at his narrow gate;
But that the Scot on his unfurnished kingdom The sad-eyed justice, with liis surly hum,
Came pouring like the tide into a breach, Delivering o'er to executors pale
With ample and brim-fulness of his force : The lazy yawning drone. I this infer:
Galling the gleanéd land with hot essays ; That many things, having full reference
Ginding with grievous siege castles and towns: To one concent, may work contrariously.
That England, being empty of defence,

As many arrows, looséd several ways,
Hath shook and trembled at the ill neighbourhood. Fly to one mark;
Cant. She hath been, then, more feared than As

ways

meet in one town; harmed, my liege:

As many fresh streams run in one self sea; For hear her but exampled by herself :

As many lines close in the dial's centre;

many several

Chor. Now all the youth of England are on fire, With treacherous crowns:and three corrupted men And silken dalliance in the wardrobe lies: (One, Richard, Earl of Cambridge, and the second, Now thrive the armourers, and honour's thought Henry, Lord Scroop of Masham; and the third, Reigns solely in the breast of every man. Sir Thomas Grey, knight, of Northumberland) They sell the pasture now to buy the horse : Have for the gilt of France (O guilt indeed !) Following the mirror of all christian kings: Confirmed conspiracy with fearful France ; With wingéd heels, as English Mercuries. And by their hands this grace of kings must die For now sits Expectation in the air,

(If hell and treason hold their promises) And hides a sword from hilts unto the point, Ere he take ship for France; and in Southampton. With crowns imperial, crowns, and coronets, Linger your patience on; and well digest Promised to Harry and his followers.

The abuse of distance, while we force a play. The French, advised by good intelligence The sum is paid; the traitors are agreed; Of this most dreadful preparation,

The King is set from London ; and the scene Shake in their fear, and with pale policy Is now transported, gentles, to Southampton. Seek to divert the English purposes.

There is the playhouse now, there must you sit ! O England! model to thy inward greatness, And thence to France shall we convey you safe, Like little body with a mighty heart,

And bring you back, charming the narrow seas What mightst thou do, that honour would thee do,

To give you gentle pass : for, if we may, Were all thy children kind and natural!

We'll not offend one stomach with our play. But see thy fault: France hath in thee found out But till the King come forth, and not till then, A nest of hollow bosoms, which he fills

Unto Southampton do we shift our scene. [Exit.