Whose want gives growth to the imperfections
Which you have cited, you must buy that

peace

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With full accord to all our just demands;
Whose tenours and particular effects
You have, enschedul'd briefly, in your hands.
Bur. The king hath heard them; to the
which as yet,

There is no answer made.

K. Hen.

Well then the peace,

Which you before so urg'd, lies in his answer. 76
Fr. King. I have but with a cursorary eye
O'erglanc'd the articles: pleaseth your Grace
To appoint some of your council presently
To sit with us once more, with better heed
To re-survey them, we will suddenly
Pass our accept and peremptory answer.

K. Hen. Brother, we shall. Go, uncle Exeter, And brother Clarence, and you, brother Gloucester, 84

Warwick and Huntingdon, go with the king;
And take with you free power to ratify,
Augment, or alter, as your wisdoms best
Shall see advantageable for our dignity,
Anything in or out of our demands,
And we'll consign thereto. Will you,
sister,

fair

Go with the princes, or stay here with us?
Q. Isa. Our gracious brother, I will go with
them.
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Haply a woman's voice may do some good
When articles too nicely urg'd be stood on.
K. Hen. Yet leave our cousin Katharine here
with us:

She is our capital demand, compris'd
Within the fore-rank of our articles.
Q. Isa. She hath good leave.

Kath. O bon Dieu! les langues des hommes sont pleines des tromperies.

K. Hen. What says she, fair one? that the tongues of men are full of deceits?

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Alice. Ouy, dat de tongues of de mans is be full of deceits: dat is de princess.

K. Hen. The princess is the better Englishwoman. I' faith, Kate, my wooing is fit for thy understanding: I am glad thou canst speak no better English; for, if thou couldst, thou wouldst find me such a plain king that thou wouldst think I had sold my farm to buy my crown. I 80 know no ways to mince it in love, but directly to say 'I love you:' then, if you urge me further than to say 'Do you in faith?' I wear out my suit. Give me your answer; i' faith do: and so clap hands and a bargain. How say you, lady? Kath. Sauf vostre honneur, me understand vell. K. Hen. Marry, if you would put me to verses, or to dance for your sake, Kate, why you undid me: for the one, I have neither words nor mea88 sure, and for the other, I have no strength in measure, yet a reasonable measure in strength. If I could win a lady at leap-frog, or by vaulting into my saddle with my armour on my back, under the correction of bragging be it spoken, I should quickly leap into a wife. Or if I might buffet for my love, or bound my horse for her favours, I could lay on like a butcher and sit like a jack-an-apes, never off. But before God, Kate, I cannot look greenly nor gasp out my eloquence, nor I have no cunning in protesta96 tion; only downright oaths, which I never use till urged, nor never break for urging. If thou canst love a fellow of this temper, Kate, whose face is not worth sun-burning, that never looks in his glass for love of anything he sees there, let thine eye be thy cook. I speak to thee plain soldier: if thou canst love me for this, take me; if not, to say to thee that I shall die, is true; but for thy love, by the Lord, no; yet I love thee too. And while thou livest, dear Kate, take a fellow of plain and uncoined constancy, for he perforce must do thee right, because he hath not the gift to woo in other places; for these fellows of infinite tongue, that can rime themselves into ladies' favours, they do always reason themselves out again. What! a speaker is but a prater; a rime is but a ballad. A good leg will fall, a straight back will stoop, a black beard will turn white, a curled pate will grow bald, a fair face will wither, a full eye will wax hollow, but a good heart, Kate, is the sun and the moon; or, rather, the sun, and not the moon; for it shines bright and never changes, but keeps

[Exeunt all except KING HENRY,
KATHARINE, and ALICE.
K. Hen. Fair Katharine, and most fair!
Will you vouchsafe to teach a soldier terms,
Such as will enter at a lady's ear,
And plead his love-suit to her gentle heart?
Kath. Your majesty sall mock at me; I can-
not speak your England.

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K. Hen. O fair Katharine! if you will love me soundly with your French heart, I will be glad to hear you confess it brokenly with your English tongue. Do you like me, Kate? 107 Kath. Pardonnez moy, I cannot tell vat is 'like me.'

K. Hen. An angel is like you, Kate; and you are like an angel.

Kath. Que dit-il? que je suis semblable à les anges? 113 Alice. Ouy, vrayment, sauf vostre grace, ainsi dit-il.

his course truly. If thou would have such a one, take me; and take me, take a soldier; take a soldier, take a king. And what sayest thou then to my love? speak, my fair, and fairly, I pray thee. Kath. Is it possible dat I sould love de enemy of France? 178 K. Hen. No; it is not possible you should love the enemy of France, Kate; but, in loving me, you should love the friend of France; for I love France so well, that I will not part with a village of it; I will have it all mine: and, Kate, when France is mine and I am yours, then yours is France and you are mine. 185

Kath. I cannot tell vat is dat.

Kath. Your majesté ave fausse French enough to deceive de most sage demoiselle dat is en France.

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K. Hen. Now, fie upon my false French! By mine honour, in true English I love thee, Kate: by which honour I dare not swear thou lovest me; yet my blood begins to flatter me that thou dost, notwithstanding the poor and untempering effect of my visage. Now beshrew my father's ambition! he was thinking of civil wars when he got me: therefore was I created with a stubborn outside, with an aspect of iron, that, when K. Hen. No, Kate? I will tell thee in French, I come to woo ladies I fright them. But, in which I am sure will hang upon my tongue like faith, Kate, the elder I wax the better I shall a new-married wife about her husband's neck, appear: my comfort is, that old age, that ill hardly to be shook off. Je quand sur le posses- layer-up of beauty, can do no more spoil upon sion de France, et quand vous avez le possession | my face: thou hast me, if thou hast me, at the de moy, let me see, what then? Saint Denis worst; and thou shalt wear me, if thou wear me, be my speed!-donc vostre est France, et vous better and better. And therefore tell me, most estes mienne. It is as easy for me, Kate, to fair Katharine, will you have me? Put off your conquer the kingdom, as to speak so much maiden blushes; avouch the thoughts of your more French: I shall never move thee in French, heart with the looks of an empress; take me unless it be to laugh at me. 197 by the hand, and say 'Harry of England, I am Kath. Sauf vostre honneur, le François que thine:' which word thou shalt no sooner bless vous parlez est meilleur que l'Anglois lequel je mine ear withal, but I will tell thee aloud— parle. 200 England is thine, Ireland is thine, France is K. Hen. No, faith, is't not, Kate; but thy thine, and Henry Plantagenet is thine;' who, speaking of my tongue, and I thine, most truly though I speak it before his face, if he be not falsely, must needs be granted to be much at fellow with the best king, thou shalt find the one. But, Kate, dost thou understand thus best king of good fellows. Come, your answer much English, Canst thou love me? 205 in broken music; for thy voice is music, and thy English broken; therefore, queen of all, Katharine, break thy mind to me in broken English: wilt thou have me? 265 Kath. Dat is as it sall please de roy mon père. K. Hen. Nay, it will please him well, Kate; it shall please him, Kate.

Kath. I cannot tell.

K. Hen. Can any of your neighbours tell, Kate? I'll ask them. Come, I know thou lovest me; and at night when you come into your closet you'll question this gentlewoman about me; and I know, Kate, you will to her dispraise those parts in me that you love with your heart: but, good Kate, mock me mercifully; the rather, gentle princess, because I love thee cruelly. If ever thou be'st mine, Kate,-as I have a saving faith within me tells me thou shalt, I get thee with scambling, and thou must therefore needs prove a good soldier-breeder. Shall not thou and I, between Saint Denis and Saint George, compound a boy, half French, half English, that shall go to Constantinople and take the Turk by the beard? shall we not? what sayest thou, my fair flower-de-luce?

Kath. I do not know dat.

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K. Hen. No; 'tis hereafter to know, but now to promise: do but now promise, Kate, you will endeavour for your French part of such a boy, and for my English moiety take the word of a king and a bachelor. How answer you, la plus

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Kath. Den it sall also content me. K. Hen. Upon that I kiss your hand, and I call you my queen.

Kath. Laissez, mon seigneur, laissez, laissez ! Ma foy, je ne veux point que vous abaissez vostre grandeur, en baisant la main d'une vostre indigne serviteure: excusez moy, je vous supplie, mon très puissant seigneur. 276

K. Hen. Then I will kiss your lips, Kate. Kath. Les dames, et demoiselles, pour estre baisées devant leur noces, il n'est pas la coutume de France.

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KING HENRY THE SIXTH

DRAMATIS PERSONE.

VERNON, of the White-Rose, or York Faction. DUKE OF GLOUCESTER, Uncle to the King, and BASSET, of the Red-Rose, or Lancaster FacProtector.

LORD TALBOT, afterwards Earl of Shrewsbury. MARGARET, Daughter to Reignier; afterwards JOHN TALBOT, his Son.

WOODVILE, Lieutenant of the Tower. Mayor Lords, Warders of the Tower, Heralds, Offiof London. Mortimer's Keepers. A cers, Soldiers, Messengers, and AttendLawyer.

Fiends appearing to La Pucelle.

SCENE.-Partly in England, and partly in France.