A soul so easy as that Englishman's. Oh, how hast thou with jealousy infected Exe. 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. 5 Poor miserable wretches, to your death: 20 I arrest thee of high treason, by the name of 25 Thomas Grey, knight of Northumberland. Scroop.Our purposes God justly hath discover'd; [duce; 30 You have con-pir'd against our royal person, SCENE III. [Exeunt. Quickly's House in Eastcheap. Pist. No: for my manly heart doth yearn.- 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 bo35 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; I hop'd, there was coffers no need to trouble himself with such thoughts yet: So'a bade me lay more cloaths on his feet: I put my hand into the bed, and felt them, and they were as cold as any stone; then I telt to his. 50 knees, and so upward, and upward, and all was as cold as any stone. Nym. They say, he cried out of sack. Burd. 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. The king means to say of Scroop, that he was a cautious man, who knew that a specious appearance was deceitful and therefore did not trust the air or look of any man till he had tried him by enquiry and conversation. 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 women of our author's time, that nobody died but in the time of ebb; though every day's experience must have confuted such a notion. This indication of approaching death is enumerated by Celsus, Lommius, Hippocrates, and Galen. 6 Poy. Boy. Yes, that 'a did; and said, they were devils] incarnate. Quick. 'A could never abide carnation; 'twas a colour he never lik'd. Boy. 'A said once, the devil would have him about women. Quick. 'A did in some sort, indeed, handle women: but then he was rheumatic; and talk'd of the whore of Babylon. 5 Boy. Do you not remember, 'a saw a flea stick 10 upon Bardolph's nose; and 'a said, it was a black soul burning in hell-fire? Bard. Well, the fuel is gone, that maintain'd that fire: that's all the riches I got in his service. Nym. Shall we shog? the king will be gone 15 from Southampton. Pist. Come, let's away.My love, give me Look to my chattels, and my moveables: For oaths are straws, men's faiths are wafer-cakes, Go, clear thy crystals.-Yoke-fellows in arms, Boy. And that is but unwholesome food, they say. Pist. Touch her soft mouth, and march. Nym. I cannot kiss, that is the humour of it; but adieu. Pist. Let housewif'ry appear; keep close, I thee command. Quick. Farewel; adieu. SCENE [Exeunt. IV. The French King's palace. Enter the French King, the Dauphin, the Duke of Burgundy, and the Constable. Fr. King. Thus come the English with full And more than carefully it us concerns, Dau. My most redoubted father, For peace itself should not so dull a kingdom, (Though war, nor no known quarrel, were in question) But that defences, musters, preparations, Should be maintain'd, assembled, and collected, Therefore, I say, 'tis meet we all go forth, To view the sick and feeble parts of France: No, with no more, than if we heard that England By a vain, giddy, shallow, humorous youth, Con. O peace, prince Dauphin! And you shall find, his vanities fore-spent Dau. Well, 'tis not so, my lord high constable, 1351 Fr. King. Think we king Harry strong; Wales; Mess. Ambassadors from Henry kingof England You see this chase is hotly follow'd, friends. 1i. e. let prudence govern you. 2 This caution was a very proper one to Mrs. Quickly, who had suffered before by letting Falstaff run in her debt. i. e. dry thine eyes. The 4to to 1608 reads, were troubled. i. e. how diffident and decent in making objections. Most Enter Exeter. For husbands, fathers, and betrothed lovers, That shall be swallow'd in this controversy. This is his claim, his threatening, and my message; Unless the Dauphin be in presence here, 5 To whom expressly I bring greeting too. 1 Fr. King. For us, we will consider of this To-morrow shall you bear our full intent Dau. For the Dauphin, I stand here for him; What to him from England? Fr. King. From our brother England? [jesty. [Gives the French King a paper. Exe. Bloody-nstraint; for if you hide the crown Even in your hearts, there will be rake for it: Daa. Say, if my father render fair reply, I did present him with those Paris balls. Exe. He'll make your Paris Louvre shake for it, 35 Enter Chorus. ACT III. Chor. THUS with imagin'd wing our swift scene flies, In motion of no less celerity To sounds confus'd: behold the threaden sales, Than that of thought. Suppose, that you have seen 55 You stand upon the rivage', and behold The well-appointed king at Hampton pier * i. e. bark. A city on the inconstant billows dancing; For so appears this fleet majestical, Holding due course to Harfleur. Follow, follow! Grapple your minds to sternage' of this navy; 60 And leave your England, as dead midnight, still Guarded with grandsires, babies, and old women, 2 To chide is to rei. e. Let Meaning, this genealogy; this deduction of his lineage. sound, to echo. The quartos 1000 and 1608, read musters. The bank or shore. your minds follow close after the navy. Or Or past, or not arriv'd to, pith and puissance: Tells Harry-that the king doth offer him SCENE I. [Exit. Enter King Henry, Exeter, Bedford, Gloster, and Soldiers, with Scaling Ladders. Follow your spirit: and, upon this charge, Enter Nym, Bardolph, Pistol, and Boy. Bard. On, on, on, on, on! to the breach, to the breach! Nym. Pray thee, corporal', stay; the knocks are 10too hot; and, for mine own part, I have not a case of lives; the humour of it is too hot, that is the very plain-song of it. 15 20I K. Henry. Once more unto the breach, dear 25 friends, once more; Pist. The plain-song is most just: for humours Knocks go and come; God's vassals drop and die; In bloody field, Doth win immortal fame. Boy. 'Would I were in an ale-house in London ! would give all my fame for a pot of ale, and safety. Flu. 'Splood-Up to the preaches, you ras30 cals! will you not up to the preaches? Pist. Be merciful, great duke, to men of mould"! Abate thy rage, abate thy manly rage! [chuck! Good bawcock, bate thy rage! use lenity, sweet Nym. These be good humours!-your honour 35 wins bad humours. Or close the wall up with the English dead! [Exeunt. Boy. As young as I am, I have observ'd these three swashers. I am boy to them all three; but all they three, though they would serve me, could not be man to me; for, indeed, three such anticks 40 do not amount to a man. For Bardolph, he is white-liver'd, and red-fac'd; by the means whereof, 'a faces it out, but fights not. For Pistol,he hath a killing tongue, and a quiet sword; by the means whereof 'a breaks words, and keeps 45 whole weapons. For Nym,-he hath heard, that men of few words are the best men; and theretore he scorns to say his prayers, lest 'a should be thought a coward: but his few bad words are match'd with as few good deeds; for a' never broke any man's head but his own; and that was against a post, when he was drunk. They will steal any thing, and call it-purchase. Bardolph stole a lute-case; bore it twelve leagues, and sold it for three-halfpence. Nym and Bardolph are 55 sworn brothers in filching; and in Calais they stole a fire-shovel: I knew, by that piece of service, the men would carry coals. They would have 1 The staff to which the match is fixed when ordnance is fired. 2 Portage, open space, from port, a gate. The meaning is, let the eye appear in the head as cannon through the battlements, or embrasures, of a fortification. 3i. e. his worn or wasted base. 4 i. e. matter, or subject. We should read lieutenant. 'i. e. a set of lives, of which, when one is worn out, another may serve. 'i. e. to men of earth. That is, bravest. In Shakspeare's age, to carry coals, implied, to endure affronts. me as familiar with men's pockets, as their gloves or their handkerchiefs: which makes much against my manhood, if I should take from another's pocket, to put into mine; for it is plain pocketing up of wrongs. I must leave them, and seek some better service: their villainy goes against my weak stomach, and therefore I must cast it up. [Exit Boy. 5 Re-enter Fluellen, Gower following. Gower. Captain Fluellen, you must come presently to the mines: the duke of Gloster would 10 speak with you. Fiu. To the mines! Tell you the duke, it is not so good to come to the mines: for, look you, the mines are not according to the disciplines of the war; the concavities of it is not sufficient; for, 15 look you, th' athversary (you may discuss unto the duke, look you) is digt himself four yards under the countermines; by Cheshu, I think 'a will plow up all, if there is not pet.er directions. Gower. The duke of Gloster, to whom the order 20 of the siege is given, is altogether directed by an Irishman; a very valiant gentleman, i' faith. Flu. It is captain Macmorris, is it not? Flu. By Cheshu, he is an ass, as in the 'orld: will verify as much in his peard: he has no more directions in the true disciplines of the wars, look you, of the Roman disciplines, than is a puppydog. Enter Macmorris, and Captain Jamy. Gower. Here 'a comes; and the Scots captain, captain Jamy, with him. me: the day is hot, and the weather, and the wars, and the king, and the dukes; it is no time to discourse. The town is beseech'd, and the trumpet calls us to the breach; and we talk, and by Chrish, do nothing; 'tis shame for us all: so God sa' me, 'tis shame to stand still; it is shame, by my hand and there is throats to be cut, and works to be done; and there ish nothing done, sø Chrish sa' me, la. Jamy. By the mess, ere theise eyes of mine take themselves to slumber, aile do good service, or aile ligge i' the grund for it; or go to death; and aile pay it as valorously as I may, that sal I surely do, that is the breff and the long: Marry, I wad full fain heard some question 'tween you tway. Flu. Captain Macmorris, I think, look you, under your correction, there is not many of your nation Mac. Of my nation? What ish my nation? ish a villain, and a bastard, and a knave, and a rascal? What ish my nation? Who talks of my nation? Flu. Look you, if you take the matter otherwise than is meant, captain Macmorris, peradventure, I shall think you do not use me with that affability 25 as in discretion you ought to use me, look you; being as goot a man as yourself, both in the disci plines of wars, and in the derivation of my birth, and in other particularities. Mac. I do not know you so good a man as my30 self: so Chrish save me, I will cut off your head. Gower. Gentlemen, both, you will mistake each other. Flu. Captain Jamy is a marvellous falorous gentleman, that is certain; and of great expedition, and knowledge, in the ancient wars, upon my par-35 ticular knowledge of his directions: by Cheshu, he will maintain his argument as well as any military man in the 'orld, in the disciplines of the pristine wars of the Romans. 40 Jamy. I say, gude-day, captain Fluellen. Fiu.God-den to yourworship,goot captainJamy. Gower. How now, captain Macmorris? have you quit the mines? have the pioneers given o'er? Mac. By Chrish la, tish ill done: the work ish give over, the trumpet sound the retreat. By my 45 hand, I swear, and by my father's soul, the work ish| ill done; it ish give over: I would have blowed up the town, so Chrish save me, la, in an hour. O tish ill done, tish ill done; by my hand, tish ill done! Flu. Captain Macmorris, I peseech you now, 50 will you voutsafe me, look you, a few dispu tations with you, as partly touching or concerning the disciplines of the war, the Roman wars, in the way of argument, look you, and friendly communication; partly, to satisfy my opi-55 nion, and partly, for the satisfaction, look you, of my mind, as touching the direction of the military discipline; that is the point. Jamy. It sall be very gud, gud feith, gud cap-| tains bath: and I sall quit you with gud leve, as 60 I may pick occasion; that sall I, marry. Mac. It is no time to discourse, so Chrish save up all. That is, he will blow Jamy.Au! that's a foul fault. [A parley sounded. Flu. Captain Macmorris, when there is more town? This is the latest parle we will admit : f will not leave the half-atchiev'd Harfleur, With conscience wide as hell; mowing like grass What is't to me, when you yourselves are cause, That is, I shall requite you, answer you. If |