King henry v, shakespeare

VOLUME II BOOK III

KING HENRY V

By William Shakespeare

Dramatis Personae

KING HENRY THE FIFTH KING HENRY V DUKE OF GLOUCESTER (GLOUCESTER) DUKE OF BEDFORD (BEDFORD)

PISTOL NYM BARDOLPH BOY A HERALD. CHARLES THE SIXTH King of France (FRENCH KING) LEWIS THE DAUPHIN (DAUPHIN) DUKE OF BURGUNDY (BURGUNDY) DUKE OF ORLEANS (ORLEANS) DUKE OF BOURBON (BOURBON) THE CONSTABLE OF FRANCE(CONSTABLE) RAMBURES GRANDPRÉ French Lords.

brothers to the King.

DUKE OF EXETER uncle to the King. (EXETER) DUKE OF YORK cousin to the King. (YORK) EARL OF SALISBURY (SALISBURY) EARL OF WESTMORELAND (WESTMORELAND) EARL OF WARWICK (WARWICK) BISHOP OF CANTERBURY (CANTERBURY) BISHOP OF ELY (ELY) EARL OF CAMBRIDGE (CAMBRIDGE) LORD SCROOP (SCROOP) SIR THOMAS GREY (GREY) SIR THOMAS ERPINGHAM(ERPINGHAM) GOWER FLUELLEN MACMORRIS

Officers in King Henry’s army.

GOVERNOR of Harfleur. MONTJOY a French Herald. Ambassadors to the King of England. ISABEL Queen of France (QUEEN ISABEL) KATHARINE daughter To Charles And Isabel. ALICE a Lady Attending On Her. Hostess of a tavern in Eastcheap formerly Mistress Quickly, and now married to Pistol. Lords, Ladies, Officers, Soldiers, Citizens,Messengers, and Attendants. Chorus. Hostess:, First Ambassador:, Messenger:, (French Soldier:)

JAMY BATES COURT WILLIAMS soldiers in the same

SCENE England; afterwards France.

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PROLOGUE
[Enter Chorus]
O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention, A kingdom for a stage, princes to act And monarchs to behold the swelling scene! Then should the warlikeHarry, like himself, Assume the port of Mars; and at his heels, Leash’d in like hounds, should famine, sword and fire Crouch for employment. But pardon, and gentles all, The flat unraised spirits that have dared 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 airat Agincourt? O, pardon! Since a crooked figure may Attest in little place a million; And let us, ciphers to this great accompt,On your
CHORUS

imaginary forces work.Suppose within the girdle of these walls Are now confined two mighty monarchies, Whose high upreared and abutting fronts The perilous narrow ocean parts asunder: Piece out our imperfections with your thoughts; Into a thousandparts divide on man, And make imaginary puissance; Think when we talk of horses, that you see them Printing their proud hoofs i’ the receiving earth; For ’tis your thoughts that now must deck our kings,Carry them here and there; jumping o’er times, Turning the accomplishment of many years Into an hour-glass: for the which supply, Admit me Chorus to this history; Who prologue-like your humble patiencepray, Gently to hear, kindly to judge, our play.

[Exit]

ACT I
SCENE I London. An ante-chamber in the KING’S palace. [Enter the ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY, and the BISHOP OF ELY]
But that the scambling and unquiet time Did push it out of farther question.
ELY

But how, my lord, shall we resist it now?

It must be thought on. If it pass against us, CANTERBURY My lord, I’ll tell you; thatself bill is urged, We lose the better half of our possession: Which in the eleventh year of the last king’s reign For all the temporal lands which men devout Was like, and had indeed against us pass’d, By testament have given to the church
CANTERBURY

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King Henry V: ACT I Would they strip from us; being valued thus: As much as would maintain, to the king’s honour,Full fifteen earls and fifteen hundred knights, Six thousand and two hundred good esquires; And, to relief of lazars and weak age, Of indigent faint souls past corporal toil. A hundred almshouses right well supplied; And to the coffers of the king beside, A thousand pounds by the year: thus runs the bill.
ELY

And never noted in him any study, Any retirement, any sequestration From open haunts...