The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

Fal. As it were, to ride day and night; and not to deliberate, not to remember, not to have patience to shift me. 24

Shal. It is most certain.

Fal. But to stand stained with travel, and sweating with desire to see him; thinking of nothing else; putting all affairs else in oblivion, as if there were nothing else to be done but to see him.

Pist. 'Tis semper idem, for absque hoc nihil est:

'Tis all in every part.

Shal. 'Tis so, indeed.

Pist. My knight, I will inflame thy noble liver,

And make thee rage.

The tutor and the feeder of my riots:
Till then, I banish thee, on pain of death,
As I have done the rest of my misleaders,
Not to come near our person by ten mile.
For competence of life I will allow you,
That lack of means enforce you not to evil: 72
And, as we hear you do reform yourselves,
We will, according to your strength and quali-
ties,

Give you advancement. Be it your charge, my
lord,

To see perform'd the tenour of our word.

Set on. [Exeunt KING HENRY V. and his Train. Fal. Master Shallow, I owe you a thousand pound.

Shal. Ay, marry, Sir John; which I beseech

Thy Doll, and Helen of thy noble thoughts, 36 you to let me have home with me.
Is in base durance and contagious prison;
Hal'd thither

By most mechanical and dirty hand:

Rouse up revenge from ebon den with fell
Alecto's snake,

40 For Doll is in: Pistol speaks nought but truth. Fal. I will deliver her.

[Shouts within and trumpets sound. | Pist. There roar'd the sea, and trumpetclangor sounds.

Enter KING HENRY THE FIFTH and his Train,
the LORD CHIEF JUSTICE among them.
Fal. God save thy grace, King Hall my royal
Hal!
45
Pist. The heavens thee guard and keep, most
royal imp of fame!

Fal. God save thee, my sweet boy!

K. Hen. V. My lord chief justice, speak to that vain man.

Ch. Just. Have you your wits? know you what 'tis you speak?

Fal. My king! my Jove! I speak to thee, my heart!

K. Hen. V. I know thee not, old man: fall to thy prayers;

How ill white hairs become a fool and jester!
I have long dream'd of such a kind of man,
So surfeit-swell'd, so old, and so profane;
But, being awak'd, I do despise my dream.
Make less thy body hence, and more thy grace;
Leave gormandising; know the grave doth gape
For thee thrice wider than for other men.
Reply not to me with a fool-born jest:
Presume not that I am the thing I was;
For God doth know, so shall the world perceive,
That I have turn'd away my former self;
So will I those that kept me company.
When thou dost hear I am as I have been,
Approach me, and thou shalt be as thou wast,

Fal. That can hardly be, Master Shallow. Do not you grieve at this: I shall be sent for in private to him. Look you, he must seem thus to the world. Fear not your advancements; I will be the man yet that shall make you great.85 Shal. I cannot perceive how, unless you should give me your doublet and stuff me out with straw. I beseech you, good Sir John, let me have five hundred of my thousand.

Fal. Sir, I will be as good as my word: this that you heard was but a colour.

Shal. A colour that I fear you will die in, Sir

First, my fear; then, my curtsy; last my speech. My fear is, your displeasure, my curtsy, my duty, and my speech, to beg your pardon. If you look for a good speech now, you undo me; for what I have to say is of mine own making; and what indeed I should say will, I doubt, prove mine own marring. But to the purpose, and so to the venture. Be it known to you,—as it is very well,-I was lately here in the end of a displeasing play, to pray your patience for it and to promise you a better. I did mean indeed to pay you with this; which, if like an ill venture it come unluckily home, I break, and you, my gentle creditors, lose. Here,

One word more, I beseech you. If you be not too much cloyed with fat meat, our humble author will continue the story, with Sir John in it, and make you merry with fair Katharine of France: where, for anything I know, Falstaff shall die of a sweat, unless already a' be killed with your hard opinions; for Oldcastle died a martyr, and this is not the man. My tongue is weary; when my legs are too, I will bid you good night: and so kneel down before you; but, indeed, to pray for the queen.

KING HENRY THE FIFTH

KING HENRY THE FIFTH.

DRAMATIS PERSONE.

CHARLES THE SIXTH, King of France. LEWIS, the Dauphin.

DUKE OF GLOUCESTER, Brothers to the King. DUKES OF BURGUNDY, ORLEANS, and BOURDUKE OF BEDFORD,

DUKE OF EXETER, Uncle to the King.

DUKE OF YORK, Cousin to the King.

BON.

The CONSTABLE OF FRANCE.

EARLS OF SALISBURY, WESTMORELAND, and RAMBURES and GRANDPRÉ, French Lords.

Piece out our imperfections with your thoughts: Into a thousand parts divide one man,

Chor. O! for a Muse of fire, that would as- And make imaginary puissance;

cend

Crouch for employment. But pardon, gentles all,
The flat unraised spirits that hath dar'd
On this unworthy scaffold to bring forth
So great an object: can this cockpit hold
The vasty fields of France? or may we cram
Within this wooden O the very casques
That did affright the air at Agincourt?
O, pardon! since a crooked figure may
Attest in little place a million;
And let us, ciphers to this great accompt,
On your imaginary forces work.
Suppose within the girdle of these walls
Are now confin'd two mighty monarchies,
Whose high upreared and abutting fronts
The perilous narrow ocean parts asunder:

Think when we talk of horses that you see them Printing their proud hoofs i' the receiving

earth;

SCENE I.-London.

An Antechamber in the KING'S Palace.

16 Enter the ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY and the BISHOP OF ELY.

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

20 Which in th' eleventh year of the last king's

Never was such a sudden scholar made;

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.

Never came reformation in a flood,

With such a heady currance, scouring faults; Nor never Hydra-headed wilfulness

So soon did lose his seat and all at once As in this king.

hear,

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 84 As I perceiv'd his Grace would fain have done,— The severals and unhidden passages

Of his true titles to some certain dukedoms,
And generally to the crown and seat of France,
Deriv'd from Edward, his great-grandfather. 89
Ely. What was the impediment that broke
this off?

Cant. The French ambassador upon that instant

Crav'd audience; and the hour I think is come
To give him hearing: is it four o'clock?
Ely. It is.

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 honey'd sentences;
So that the art and practic part of life
Must be the mistress to this theoric:

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 hear it. [Exeunt.

SCENE II.-The Same. The Presence Chamber.
Enter KING HENRY, GLOUCESTER, BEDFORD,
EXETER, WARWICK, WESTMORELAND, and
Attendants.

No woman shall succeed in Salique land:’
Which Salique land the French unjustly gloze
To be the realm of France, and Pharamond 41
The founder of this law and female bar.
Yet their own authors faithfully affirm

K. Hen. Where is my gracious lord of Can- That the land Salique is in Germany,
terbury?

Exe. Not here in presence.
K. Hen.
Send for him, good uncle.
West. Shall we call in the ambassador, my
liege?

K. Hen. Not yet, my cousin: we would be
resolv❜d,

Between the floods of Sala and of Elbe;
Where Charles the Great, having subdu'd the
Saxons,

There left behind and settled certain French; Who, holding in disdain the German women 48 For some dishonest manners of their life, Establish'd then 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. Then doth it well appear the Salique law Enter the ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY and Was not devised for the realm of France;

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

the BISHOP OF ELY.

Nor did the French possess the Salique land 56

Cant. God and his angels guard your sacred Until four hundred one-and-twenty years 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. 12
And God forbid, my dear and faithful lord,
That you should fashion, wrest, or bow your
reading,

After defunction of King Pharamond,
Idly suppos'd the founder of this law;

Who died within the year of our redemption 60
Four hundred twenty-six; and Charles the Great
Subdu'd 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 Childeric,
Did, as heir general, being descended
Of Blithild, which was daughter to King Clothair,
Make claim and title to the crown of France. 68
16 Hugh Capet also, who usurp'd the crown

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
Shall drop their blood in approbation
Of what your reverence shall incite us to. 20
Therefore take heed how you impawn our 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 24
Without much fall of blood; whose guiltless
drops

Are every one a woe, a sore complaint,
'Gainst him whose wrongs give edge unto the
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.
32

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

That owe yourselves, your lives, and services
To this imperial throne. There is no bar
To make against your highness' claim to France
But this, which they produce from Pharamond,
In terram Salicam mulieres ne succedant,

Of Charles the Duke of Loraine, sole heir male
Of the true line and stock of Charles the Great,
To find his title with some shows 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 76
Of Charles the Great. Also King Lewis the
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 grandmother,
Was lineal of the Lady Ermengare,
Daughter to Charles the aforesaid Duke of
Loraine:

By the which marriage the line of Charles the
Great

Was re-united to the crown of France.
So that, as clear as is the summer's sun,
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;

88.

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