Whereof take you one quarter into France, [Dauphin. Enter Ambassadors of France. Amb. Thus then, in few. Tell him, he hath made a match with such a That all the courts of France will be disturb'd 15 And plodded like a man for working-days; widows Shall thishis mock mock out of their dear husbands; 25 Mock mothers from their sons, mock castles down; And some are yet ungotten, and unborn, That shall have cause to curse the Dauphin's scorn. 30 Tell you the Dauphin, I am coming on, [it.35 When thousands weep, more than did laugh at Convey them with safe conduct.-Fare you well. [Exeunt Ambis: ubs. Your highness, lately sending into France, Exe. This was a merry message. [with us; K.Henry. We are glad the Dauphinis so pleasant His present, and your pains, we thank you for: When we have match'd our rackets to these bails, 50 We will, in France, by God's grace, play a set, Shall strike his father's crown into the hazard· 1 3 [Exeunt. 2 A Empery signifies dominion, but it is now an obsolete word, though formerly in general use. galliard was an ancient dance, now obsolete. Chace is a term at tennis. So is the hazard; a place in the tennis-court into which the ball is sometimes struck. i. e. not in the court, the place in which he is now speaking. When ordnance was first used, they discharged balls, not of iron, but of stone. Enter Chorus. Cho. NOW all the youth of England are on fire, And silken dalliance in the wardrobe lies; Bard. What, are ancient Pis yet? Nym. For my part, I care no when time shall serve, there sh 5 that shall be as it may. I da will wink, and hold out mine i one; but what though? it will it will endure cold as another and there's the humour of it. 10 Bard. I will bestow a break friends; and we'll be all three France': let it be so, good cor Nym. Faith, I will live so lo the certain of it; and, when 15 longer, I will do as I may: th is the rendezvous of it. 20 O England!-nodel to thy inward greatness, Before Quickly's house in East-cheap. Nym. Good morrow, lieutenant Bardolph. Bard. It is certain, corporal to Nell Quickly: and, certai wrong; for you were troth-plig Nym. I cannot tell; things mu Men may sleep, and they may about them at that time; and, have edges. It must be as it ma be a tir'd mare, yet she will plo conclusions. Well, I cannot te Enter Pistol and 2 Bard. Here comes ancient P -good corporal, be patient mine host Pistol? Pist. Base tyke, call'st thou Now, by this hand I swear, I sc Nor shall my Nell keep lodger Quick. No, by my troth, not not lodge and board a dozen o 35 women, that live honestly by needles, but it will be thought house straight.-O well-a-day, drawn now! We shall see wi murder committed. 40 45 Bard. Good lieutenant, go nothing here. Nym. Pish! Pist. Pish for thee, Iceland ear'd cur of Iceland! Quick. Good corporal Nym, of a man, and put up thy sword. Nym. Will you shogo off? I solus. Pist. Solus, egregious dog! [50] The plus in thy most marvellou Mr. Tollet says, that in the horse armoury in the Tower of London, Edwa sented with two crowns on his sword, alluding to the two kingdoms, France and 1 which he was crowned heir. Perhaps the poet took the thought from this represent which in our author generally signifies a display of gold, in the present instance mean 3 i. e. he who does great honour to the title. By the same kind of phraseology the u is called the Vice of kings, i. e. the opprobrium of them. To force a play, is to p compelling many circumstances into a narrow compass. That is, you shall pass the qualms of sea-sickness. "At this scene begins the connection of this play with King Henry IV. Dr. Johnson thinks we should read, We'll all go sworn brothers to all be sworn brothers in France. Tike is a small kind of dog. "We should read it is Pistol to whom he addresses himself. 10 Meaning, will you march, or go off? 2 The solus in thy teeth, and in thy throat, And in thy hateful lungs, yea, in thy maw, perdy; Nym. I am not Barbason'; you cannot conjure me. I have an humour to knock you indifferently well: If you grow foul with me, Pistol, I will Scour you with my rapier, as I may, in fair terms: If you would walk off, I would prick your guts a little, in good terms, as I may; and that's the humour of it. Pist. Sword is an oath, and oaths must ha their course. Bard. Corporal Nym, an thou wilt be friend be friends: an thou wilt not, why then be en 5mies with me too. Pry'thee put up. 10 Pist. Obraggard vile, and damned furious wight! The grave doth gape, and doating death is near; 15 Therefore exhale. Bard. Hear me, hear me what I say:-he that strikes the first stroke, I'll run him up to the hilts, as I am a soldier. Pist. An oath of mickle might; and fury shall 20 abate. Give me thy fist, thy fore-foot to me give; Nym. I will cut thy throat, one time or other, in fair terms; that is the humour of it. Pist. Coupe le gorge, that is the word-I defy O hound of Crete, think'st thou my spouse to get? And from the powdering tub of infamy Boy. Mine host Pistol, you must come to my master, and you hostess ;-he is very sick, and would to bed.-Good Bardolph, put thy nose between his sheets, and do the office of a warmingpan: faith, he's very ill. Bard. Away, you rogue. Quick. By my troth, he'll yield the crow a pudding one of these days: the king has killed his heart.-Good husband, come home presently. 25 30 35 Nym. I shall have my eight shillings, I won you at betting? Pist. A noble shalt thou have, and present pay Nym. I shall have my noble? Quick. As ever you came of women, come i quickly to sir John: Ah, poor heart! he is shak'd of a burning quotidian tertian, that it most lamentable to behold. Sweet men, com to him. Nym. The king hath run bad humours on th knight, that's the even of it. Pist. Nym, thou hast spoke the right; Nym. The king is a good king: but it must b SCENE II. Enter Exeter, Bedford, and Westmoreland. traitors! Exe. They shall be apprehended by and by. 40 As if allegiance in their bosoms sat, [Exit Quickly. 45 Bard. Come, shall I make you two friends? We must to France together; Why, the devil, should we keep knives to cut one another's throats? Bed. The king hath note of all that they intend By interception which they dream not of. Ere. Nay, but the man that was his bedfellow Whom he hath cloy'd and grac'd with princel favours, That he should, for a foreign purse, so sell Pist. Let floods o'erswell, and fiends for food 50 Enter the King, Scroop, Cambridge, Grey, an howl on! Nym. You'll pay me the eight shillings I won of you at betting? Pist. Base is the slave that pays. Nym. That now I will have: that's the hu-55 mour of it. Pist. As manhood shall compound; Push home. [Draw. Bard. By this sword, he that makes the first thrust, I'll kill him; by this sword, I will. 1 My lord of Cambridge,-and my kind lord 60 For which we have in head' assembled them? 1 Barbason is the name of a dæmon mentioned in the Merry Wives of Windsor. annellation of bedt lan which annears strange to we K. Henry. I doubt not that: since we are well We carry not a heart with us from hence, [lov'd, [Read them; andknow, I know your worthiness.— 5 What see you in those papers, that you lose Cam. Never was monarch better fear'd and Than is your majesty; there's not, I think, a10 subject, That sits in heart-grief and uneasiness Grey. Even those, that were your father's ene- Have steep'd their galls in honey; and doserve youj K. Henry. We therefore have great cause of And shall forget the office of our hand, Scroop. So service shall with steeled sinews toil; K. Henry. We judge no less.-Uncle of Exeter, 15 That hath so cowarded and chas'd your blood Cam. I do contess my fault; And do submit me to your highness' mercy. K. Henry. The mercy, that was quick in us By your own counsel is suppress'd and kill'd: 25 30 Cam. So may your highness, and yet punish too. 35 Grey. Sir, you shew great mercy, if you give him life, After the taste of much correction. K. Henry. Alas, your too much love and care of me Are heavy orisons 'gainst this poor wretch. Appear before us?-We'll yet enlarge that man, And tender preservation of our person, To kill us here in Hampton: to the which, What shall I say to thee, lord Scroop; thou cruel, Could out of thee extract one spark of evil, 45 Would have him punish'd. And now to our 50 He hath got the voice in hell for excellence: French causes;— Who are the late commissioners? Cam. I one, my lord; Your highness bade me ask for it to-day. Grey. And me, my royal sovereign. K. Henry. Then, Richard, earl of Cambridge, there is yours; There yours, lord Scroop of Masham;—and, sir knight, Grey of Northumberland, this same is yours : And other devils, that suggest by treasons, 55 But he, that temper'd thee, bade thee stand up, 1i. e. made up of duty and zeal. On his return to more coolness of mind. 'i. e. from intoxication. * i. e. living. To stand off is étre relevé, to be prominent to the eye, as the strong parts of a picture. i. e. palpably, i.e. Tartarus, the fabled place of future punishment. A soul Poor miserable wretches, to your death: A soul so easy as that Englishman's. 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. 20 25 I arrest thee of high treason, by the name of your sentence. You have conspir'd against our royal person, SCENE III. [Exeunt Enter Pistol, Nym, Bardolph, Boy, and Quickly. bring thee to Staines. yearn. Pist. No: for my manly heart doth veins; [dead, Boy, bristle thy courage up; for Falstaff he is And we must yearn therefore. 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 boson, 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 [ter, Receiv'd the golden earnest of our death ; 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 felt to his 50 knees, and so upward, and upward, and all was as cold as any stone. 55 Nym. They say, he cried out of sack. Bard. And of women. Quick. Nay, that 'a did not. 2 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. say of Scroop, that he was a cautious man, who knew that a specious appearance was deceitful and The king means to 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. 4i. 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 6 |