The mighty sender, doth he prize you at. Thus says my king: and, if your father's highness Do not, in grant of all demands at large, Sweeten the bitter mock you sent his majesty, He'll call you to so hot an answer of it, In second accent of his ord(i)nance. Dau. Say, if my father render fair return, It is against my will: for I desire Nothing but odds with England; to that end, As matching to his youth and vanity, Exe. He'll make your Paris Louvre shake for it, Were it the mistress court of mighty Europe: time, [read Even to the utmost grain; that you shall In your own losses if he stay in France. Fr. King. To-morrow shall you know our mind at full. Exe. Dispatch us with all speed, lest that our king Come here himself to question our delay; Fr. King. You shall be soon dispatch'd, with fair conditions: A night is but small breath, and little pause, To answer matters of this consequence. [Exeunt. ACT III. CHORUS. HUS with imagined wing our swift scene flies, In motion of no less celerity Than that of thought. Suppose that you have seen The well-appointed king at Hampton pier Play with your fancies; and in them behold, give sea, Breasting the lofty surge: O, do but think Follow, Holding due course to Harfleur. follow! Grapple your minds to sternage of this navy; And leave your England, as dead midnight still, [women, Guarded with grandsires, babies, and old Either past, or not arrived to, pith and puis sance: For who is he, whose chin is but enrich'd Work, work your thoughts, and therein see a Tells Harry, that the king doth offer him Katharine his daughter; and with her, to dowry, Some petty and unprofitable dukedoms. [Alarum; and chambers (small cannon) go off. And down goes all before them. Still be kind, And eke out our performance with your mind. [Exit, SCENE I.-France. Before Harfleur. Alarums. Enter KING HENRY, Exeter, Bedford, GLOSTER, and Soldiers, with scaling ladders. K. Hen. Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; Or close the wall up with our English dead! But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Let it pry through the portage of the head, Like the brass cannon; let the brow o'erwhelm it, As fearfully as doth a galled rock O'erhang and jutty his confounded base, Hold hard the breath, and bend up every spirit To his full height!-On, on, you nobless English, [proof! Whose blood is fet from fathers of warFathers that, like so many Alexanders, Have in these parts from morn till even [ment. And sheathed their swords for lack of arguDishonor not your mothers; now attest That those whom you call fathers did beget you! fought, Be copy now to men of grosser blood, yeomen, That you are worth your breeding: which I doubt not; For there is none of you so mean and base [Exeunt. Alarum, and chambers SCENE II.-The same. go off. Forces passover; then 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 too hot; and, for mine own part, I have not a case of lives: the humor of it is too hot, that is the very plain-song of it. Pist. The plain-song is most just; for humors do abound; Knocks go and come; God's vassals drop and die; In bloody field, Doth win immortal fame. Boy. Would I were in an alehouse in London! I would give all my fame for a pot of ale and safety. |