You won it, wore it, kept it, gave it me :

Then plain and right must my possession be; Which I, with more than with a common pain, 220 'Gainst all the world will rightfully maintain.

ACT V.

SCENE II.-Westminster.

Palace.

A Room in the

Enter KING HENRY V.1

Ch. Just. Good morrow, and God save your majesty !

King. This new and gorgeous garment, majesty, Sits not so easy on me as you think.

Brothers, you mix your sadness with some fear; 225
This is the English, not the Turkish court;
Not Amurath an Amurath succeeds,

But Harry Harry. Yet be sad, good brothers,

For, to speak truth, it very well becomes you ;
Sorrow so royally in you appears,

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That I will deeply put the fashion on

And wear it in my heart: why then, be sad;

But entertain no more of it, good brothers,

Than a joint burthen laid upon us all.

For me, by heaven, I bid you be assured,
I'll be your father and your brother too;

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Let me but bear your love, I'll bear your cares.
Yet weep that Harry's dead; and so will I:
But Harry lives that shall convert those tears,
By number into hours of happiness.

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Princes. We hope no other from your majesty.

1 Prince Henry, when one of his followers had been sentenced to imprisonment by the judge (the present Chief Justice), had, in a fit of passion at the slight which he imagined had been put upon him, struck the judge, who thereupon commanded that he should be placed in confinement, which order the prince obeyed. Here Henry as king is represented as showing his appreciation of the courage and impartiality which the Chief Justice showed on that occasion.

King. You all look strangely on me and you

most;

You are, I think, assured I love you not.

[To the LORD CHIEF JUSTICE.

Ch. Just. I am assured, if I be measured rightly,
Your majesty hath no just cause to hate me.
King. No!

How might a prince of my great hopes forget
So great indignities you laid upon me?

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What! rate, rebuke, and roughly send to prison
The immediate heir of England! Was this easy?
May this be wash'd in Lethe, and forgotten?
Ch. Just. I then did use the person of your father;
The image of his power lay then in me;
And, in the administration of his law,
Whiles I was busy for the commonwealth,
Your highness pleased to forget my place,
The majesty and power of law and justice,
The image of the king whom I presented,
And struck me in my very seat of judgment ;
Whereon, as an offender to your father,
I gave bold way to my authority,
And did commit you. If the deed were ill,
Be you contented, wearing now the garland,
To have a son set your decrees at nought,

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To pluck down justice from your awful bench; 265 To trip the course of law, and blunt the sword That guards the peace and safety of your person:

Nay, more, to spurn at your most royal image,

And mock your workings in a second body.

Question your royal thoughts, make the case yours;

Be now the father, and propose a son,

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Hear your own dignity so much profaned,

See your most dreadful laws so loosely slighted,

Behold yourself so by a son disdain'd;

And then imagine me taking your part,

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And, in your power, soft silencing your son :
After this cold considerance, sentence me;

And, as you are a king, speak in your state
What I have done that misbecame my place,

My person, or my liege's sovereignty.

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King. You are right, justice, and you weigh this well;

Therefore still bear the balance and the sword:
And I do wish your honours may increase,
Till you do live to see a son of mine

Offend you, and obey you, as I did.

So shall I live to speak my father's words;
"Happy am I that have a man so bold,
That dares do justice on my proper son :
And not less happy, having such a son,
That would deliver up his greatness so
Into the hands of justice."

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You did commit me :

For which, I do commit into your hand
The unstained sword that you have used to bear;
With this remembrance, that you use the same
With the like bold, just, and impartial spirit,
As you have done 'gainst me.

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There is my hand. You shall be as a father to my youth:

My voice shall sound as you do prompt mine ear;

And I will stoop and humble my intents

To your well-practised, wise directions.

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And, princes all, believe me, I beseech you ;
My father is gone wild into his grave,
For in his tomb lie my affections;
And with his spirit sadly I survive,
To mock the expectation of the world;
To frustrate prophecies, and to raze out
Rotten opinion, who hath writ me down

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After my seeming. The tide of blood in me
Hath proudly flow'd in vanity, till now :

Now doth it turn and ebb back to the sea;

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Where it shall mingle with the state of floods,
And flow henceforth in formal majesty.
Now call we our high court of parliament;
And let us choose such limbs of noble counsel,
That the great body of our state may go
In equal rank with the best-governed nation;
That war, or peace, or both at once, may be
As things acquainted and familiar to us;

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In which you, father, shall have foremost hand. [To the LORD Chief Justice.

Our coronation done, we will accite,

As I before remember'd, all our state;

And, God consigning to my good intents,

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No prince, nor peer, shall have just cause to say, Heaven shorten Harry's happy life one day.

[Exeunt.

KING HENRY V.

ACT IV.

SCENE III.-The English Camp.

Enter GLOUCEster, Bedford, EXETER, ERPINGHAM, with all his host; SALISBURY and WESTMORELAND.1

Glou. Where is the king?

Bed. The king himself is rode to view their battle. West. Of fighting men they have full three score thousand.

Exe. There's five to one; besides, they all are fresh.

Sal. God's arm strike with us! 'tis a fearful odds. God be wi' you, princes all; I'll to my charge: 6 If we no more meet till we meet in heaven, Then, joyfully, my noble Lord of Bedford,

My dear Lord Gloucester, and my good Lord Exeter,

And my kind kinsman, warriors all, adieu ! ΙΟ Bed. Farewell, good Salisbury; and good luck

go with thee!

Exe. Farewell, kind lord; fight valiantly to-day: And yet I do thee wrong to mind thee of it, For thou art framed of the firm truth of valour.

[Exit SALISBURY.

1 The Dukes of Gloucester and Bedford were the king's brothers, the Duke of Exeter was his uncle, the Duke of York his cousin. Warwick, Salisbury, and Westmoreland were earls.

Bed. He is as full of valour as of kindness; 15

Princely in both.

Enter the KING.

Westmoreland. O that we now had here

But one ten thousand of those men in England,
That do no work to-day!

King Henry V. What's he that wishes so?
My cousin Westmoreland !—No, my fair cousin :
If we are mark'd to die, we are enow

To do our country loss; and if to live,

The fewer men, the greater share of honour.

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God's will! I pray thee, wish not one man more. 25 By Jove, I am not covetous for gold;

Nor care I who doth feed upon my cost;

It yearns me not, if men my garments wear;
Such outward things dwell not in my desires :
But, if it be a sin to covet honour,

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I am the most offending soul alive.
No, 'faith my coz, wish not a man from England :
God's peace! I would not lose so great an honour
As one man more, methinks, would share from me
For the best hope I have. O, do not wish one more !
Rather proclaim it, Westmoreland, through my

host,

That he, which hath no stomach to this fight,
Let him depart; his passport shall be made,
And crowns for convoy put into his purse :
We would not die in that man's company,
That fears his fellowship to die with us.
This day is call'd the feast of Crispian :
He that outlives this day, and comes safe home,
Will stand a-tiptoe, when this day is named,
And rouse him at the name of Crispian.

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He that shall live this day, and see old age,
Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbours,
And say
"To-morrow is Saint Crispian :"
Then will he strip his sleeve, and show his scars,
And say 66 These wounds I had on Crispin's day." 50

Old men forget; yet all shall be forgot,