K. Hen. It is not a fashion for the maids in France to kiss before they are married, would she say? 289 Alice. Ouy, vrayment. K. Hen. O Kate! nice customs curtsy to great kings. Dear Kate, you and I cannot be confined within the weak list of a country's fashion: we are the makers of manners, Kate; and the liberty that follows our places stops the mouths of all find-faults, as I will do yours, for upholding the nice fashion of your country in denying me a kiss: therefore, patiently, and yielding [Kissing her]. You have witchcraft in your lips, Kate: there is more eloquence in a sugar touch of them, than in the tongues of the French council; and they should sooner persuade Harry of England than a general petition of monarchs. Here comes your father. 304 K. Hen. Yet they do wink and yield, as love is blind and enforces. Bur. They are then excused, my lord, when they see not what they do. 329 K. Hen. Then, good my lord, teach your cousin to consent winking. Bur. I will wink on her to consent, my lord, if you will teach her to know my meaning: for maids, well summered and warm kept, are like flies at Bartholomew-tide, blind, though they have their eyes; and then they will endure handling, which before would not abide looking on. K. Hen. This moral ties me over to time K. Hen. I am content; so the maiden cities you talk of may wait on her: so the maid that stood in the way for my wish shall show me the way to my will. 356 Fr. King. We have consented to all terms of reason. K. Hen. Is't so, my lords of England? - West. The king hath granted every article: His daughter first, and then in sequel all, According to their firm proposed natures. 361 Exe. Only he hath not yet subscribed this: Where your majesty demands, that the King of France, having any occasion to write for matter of grant, shall name your highness in this form, and with this addition, in French, Notre très cher filz Henry roy d'Angleterre, Héretier de France; and thus in Latin, Præclarissimus filius noster Henricus, Rex Angliæ, et Hæres Franciæ. Fr. King. Nor this I have not, brother, so denied, But your request shall make me let it pass. 372 K. Hen. I pray you then, in love and dear alliance, Let that one article rank with the rest; Fr. King. Take her, fair son; and from her blood raise up 376 Issue to me; that the contending kingdoms With envy of each other's happiness, As man and wife, being two, are one in love, 389 So be there 'twixt your kingdoms such a spousal That never may ill office, or fell jealousy, Which troubles oft the bed of blessed marriage, Thrust in between the paction of these kingdoms, To make divorce of their incorporate league; That English may as French, French Englishmen, Receive each other! God speak this Amen! 396 All. Amen! K. Hen. Prepare we for our marriage: on which day, My Lord of Burgundy, we'll take your oath, And all the peers', for surety of our leagues. 400 Then shall I swear to Kate, and you to me; And may our oaths well kept and prosperous be! [Sennet. Exeunt. Mangling by starts the full course of their glory. Small time, but in that small most greatly liv'd This star of England: Fortune made his sword, By which the world's best garden he achiev'd, 409 And of it left his son imperial lord. Henry the Sixth, in infant bands crown'd King Of France and England, did this king succeed; Whose state so many had the managing, 413 That they lost France and made his England bleed: Which oft our stage hath shown; and, for their sake, In your fair minds let this acceptance take. 416 [Exit. THE FIRST PART OF KING HENRY THE SIXTH KING HENRY THE SIXTH. DRAMATIS PERSONÆ. VERNON, of the White-Rose, or York Faction. DUKE OF GLOUCESTER, Uncle to the King, and BASSET, of the Red-Rose, or Lancaster FacProtector. DUKE OF BEDFORD, Uncle to the King, Regent of France. THOMAS BEAUFORT, Duke of Exeter, Greatuncle to the King. HENRY BEAUFORT, Great-uncle to the King; Bishop of Winchester, and afterwards Cardinal. JOHN BEAUFORT, Earl, afterwards Duke, of Somerset. RICHARD PLANTAGENET, Son of Richard, late Earl of Cambridge; afterwards Duke of York. EARL OF WARWICK. EARL OF SALISBURY. EARL OF SUFFOLK. tion. CHARLES, Dauphin, and afterwards King of France. REIGNIER, Duke of Anjou, and titular King of Naples. DUKE OF BURGUNDY. Master-Gunner of Orleans, and his Son. A Porter. An old Shepherd, Father to Joan la Pucelle. LORD TALBOT, afterwards Earl of Shrewsbury. MARGARET, Daughter to Reignier; afterwards JOHN TALBOT, his Son. EDMUND MORTIMER, Earl of March. SIR JOHN FASTOLFE. SIR WILLIAM LUCY. SIR WILLIAM GLANSDALE. married to King Henry. COUNTESS OF AUVERGNE. JOAN LA PUCELLE, commonly called Joan of Arc. SIR THOMAS GARGRAVE. WOODVILE, Lieutenant of the Tower. Mayor Lords, Warders of the Tower, Heralds, Offiof London. Mortimer's Keepers. A cers, Soldiers, Messengers, and AttendLawyer. ants. Fiends appearing to La Pucelle. SCENE.-Partly in England, and partly in France. ACT I. SCENE I.-Westminster Abbey. Dead March. Enter the Funeral of KING HENRY THE FIFTH attended on by the DUKES OF BEDFORD, GLOUCESTER, and EXETER; the EARL OF WARWICK, the BISHOP OF WINCHESTER, Heralds, &c. Bed. Hung be the heavens with black, yield day to night! Comets, importing change of times and states, Glo. Is Paris lost? is Roan yielded up? 20 If Henry were recall'd to life again These news would cause him once more yield the ghost. Upon a wooden coffin we attend, 24 28 Unto the French the dreadful judgment-day So dreadful will not be as was his sight. The battles of the Lord of hosts he fought: The church's prayers made him so prosperous. Glo. The church! where is it? Had not churchmen pray'd 33 His thread of life had not so soon decay'd: None do you like but an effeminate prince, Whom like a school-boy you may over-awe. 36 Win. Gloucester, whate'er we like thou art protector, And lookest to command the prince and realm. Thy wife is proud; she holdeth thee in awe, More than God or religious churchmen may. 40 Glo. Name not religion, for thou lov'st the flesh, And ne'er throughout the year to church thou go'st, Except it be to pray against thy foes. Bed. Cease, cease these jars and rest your minds in peace! 44 Let's to the altar: heralds, wait on us: Our isle be made a marish of salt tears, Enter a Messenger. 48 52 56 Exe. How were they lost? what treachery was us'd? 68 Mess. No treachery; but want of men and money. Among the soldiers this is muttered, 72 76 You are disputing of your generals. Exe. Were our tears wanting to this funeral These tidings would call forth their flowing tides. Bed. Me they concern; Regent I am of France. 84 The Bastard of Orleans with him is join'd; Reignier, Duke of Anjou, doth take his part; The Duke of Alençon flieth to his side. Exe. The Dauphin crowned king! all fly to him! 96 O! whither shall we fly from this reproach? Glo. We will not fly, but to our enemies' throats. Bedford, if thou be slack, I'll fight it out. An army have I muster'd in my thoughts, Speak softly; or the loss of those great towns Will make him burst his lead and rise from death. 64 Enter a third Messenger. 100 Third Mess. My gracious lords, to add to your laments, Wherewith you now bedew King Henry's hearse, I must inform you of a dismal fight 105 Betwixt the stout Lord Talbot and the French. Win. What! wherein Talbot overcame? is't Ten thousand soldiers with me I will take, so? Whose bloody deeds shall make all Europe quake. Third Mess. O, no! wherein Lord Talbot was o'erthrown: The circumstance I'll tell you more at large. 108 Having full scarce six thousand in his troop, 112 He wanted pikes to set before his archers; 116 Instead whereof sharp stakes pluck'd out of hedges They pitched in the ground confusedly, To keep the horsemen off from breaking in. More than three hours the fight continued; 120 Where valiant Talbot above human thought Enacted wonders with his sword and lance. Hundreds he sent to hell, and none durst stand him; 128 Here, there, and every where, enrag'd he flew: 132 136 156 Third Mess. So you had need; for Orleans is besieg'd; The English army is grown weak and faint; 160 | And hardly keeps his men from mutiny, Since they, so few, watch such a multitude. Exe. Remember, lords, your oaths to Henry sworn, SCENE II.-France. Before Orleans. Flourish. Enter CHARLES, with his Forces: ALENÇON, REIGNIER, and Others. Char. Mars his true moving, even as in the heavens So in the earth, to this day is not known. Faintly besiege us one hour in a month. 8 Alen. They want their porridge and their fat bull-beeves: Either they must be dieted like mules Talbot is taken, whom we wont to fear: 16 |