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KING HENRY THE FIFTH

KING HENRY THE

FIFTH

William Shakespeare

1599

KING HENRY THE FIFTH

PROLOGUE

Enter CHORUS

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 warlike Harry, 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, gentles all,

The flat unraised spirits that hath dar'd 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 air at Agincourt? O, pardon! since a crooked figure may Attest in little

place a million; And let us, ciphers to this great accompt, On your

imaginary forces work. Suppose within the girdle of these walls Are now

confin'd two mighty monarchies, Whose high upreared and abutting fronts

The perilous narrow ocean parts asunder. Piece out our imperfections with

your thoughts: Into a thousand parts divide one man, And make imaginary

puissance; Think, when we talk of horses, that you see them Printing their

proud hoofs i' th' receiving earth; For 'tis your thoughts that now must

deck our kings, Carry them here and there, jumping o'er times, Turning th'

accomplishment of many years Into an hour-glass; for the which supply,

Admit me Chorus to this history; Who prologue-like, your humble

patience pray Gently to hear, kindly to judge, our play. Exit

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ACT I.

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SCENE I. London.

An ante-chamber in the KING'S palace

Enter the ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY and the BISHOP OF

ELY

CANTERBURY. My lord, I'll tell you: that self bill is urg'd Which in

th' eleventh year of the last king's reign Was like, and had indeed against

us pass'd But that the scambling and unquiet time Did push it out of

farther question. ELY. But how, my lord, shall we resist it now?

CANTERBURY. It must be thought on. If it pass against us, We lose the

better half of our possession; For all the temporal lands which men devout

By testament have given to the church Would they strip from us; being

valu'd 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 alms-houses right well supplied; And to the

coffers of the King, beside, A thousand pounds by th' year: thus runs the

bill. ELY. This would drink deep. CANTERBURY. 'T would drink the cup

and all. ELY. But what prevention? CANTERBURY. The King is full of

grace and fair regard. ELY. And a true lover of the holy Church.

CANTERBURY. The courses of his youth promis'd it not. The breath no

sooner left his father's body But that his wildness, mortified in him,

Seem'd to die too; yea, at that very moment, Consideration like an angel

came And whipp'd th' offending Adam out of him, Leaving his body as a

paradise T'envelop and contain celestial spirits. Never was such a sudden

scholar made; Never came reformation in a flood, With such a heady

currance, scouring faults; Nor never Hydra-headed wilfulnes So soon did

lose his seat, and all at once, As in this king. ELY. We are blessed in the

change. CANTERBURY. Hear him but reason in divinity, And, all-

admiring, with an inward wish You would desire the King were made a

prelate; Hear him debate of commonwealth affairs, You would say it hath

been all in all his study; List his discourse of war, and you shall hear A

fearful battle rend'red you in music. Turn him to any cause of policy, The

Gordian knot of it he will unloose, Familiar as his garter; that, when he

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speaks, The air, a charter'd libertine, is still, And the mute wonder lurketh

in men's ears To steal his sweet and honey'd sentences; So that the art and

practic part of life Must be the mistress to this theoric; Which is a wonder

how his Grace should glean it, Since his addiction was to courses vain, His

companies unletter'd, rude, and shallow, His hours fill'd up with riots,

banquets, sports; And never noted in him any study, Any retirement, any

sequestration From open haunts and popularity. ELY. The strawberry

grows underneath the nettle, And wholesome berries thrive and ripen best

Neighbour'd by fruit of baser quality; And so the Prince obscur'd his

contemplation Under the veil of wildness; which, no doubt, Grew like the

summer grass, fastest by night, Unseen, yet crescive in his faculty.

CANTERBURY. It must be so; for miracles are ceas'd; And therefore we

must needs admit the means How things are perfected. ELY. But, my good

lord, How now for mitigation of this bill Urg'd by the Commons? Doth his

Majesty Incline to it, or no? CANTERBURY. He seems indifferent Or

rather swaying more upon our part Than cherishing th' exhibiters against

us; For I have made an offer to his Majesty- Upon our spiritual

convocation And in regard of causes now in hand, Which I have open'd to

his Grace at large, As touching France- to give a greater sum Than ever at

one time the clergy yet Did to his predecessors part withal. ELY. How did

this offer seem receiv'd, my lord? CANTERBURY. With good acceptance

of his Majesty; Save that there was not time enough to hear, As I perceiv'd

his Grace would fain have done, The severals and unhidden passages Of

his true tides to some certain dukedoms, And generally to the crown and

seat of France, Deriv'd from Edward, his great-grandfather. ELY. What

was th' impediment that broke this off? CANTERBURY. The French

ambassador upon that instant Crav'd audience; and the hour, I think, is

come To give him hearing: is it four o'clock? ELY. It is. CANTERBURY.

Then go we in, to know his embassy; Which I could with a ready guess

declare, Before the Frenchman speak a word of it. ELY. I'll wait upon you,

and I long to hear it. Exeunt

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SCENE II. London. The Presence Chamber in the

KING'S palace

Enter the KING, GLOUCESTER, BEDFORD, EXETER, WARWICK,

WESTMORELAND, and attendants

KING HENRY. Where is my gracious Lord of Canterbury? EXETER.

Not here in presence. KING HENRY. Send for him, good uncle.

WESTMORELAND. Shall we call in th' ambassador, my liege? KING

HENRY. Not yet, my cousin; we would be resolv'd, Before we hear him,

of some things of weight That task our thoughts, concerning us and

France.

Enter the ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY and the BISHOP OF

ELY

CANTERBURY. God and his angels guard your sacred throne, And

make you long become it! KING HENRY. Sure, we thank you. My

learned lord, we pray you to proceed, And justly and religiously unfold

Why the law Salique, that they have in France, Or should or should not bar

us in our claim; And God forbid, my dear and faithful lord, That you

should fashion, wrest, or bow your reading, Or nicely charge your

understanding soul With opening titles miscreate whose right Suits not in

native colours with the truth; For God doth know how many, now in health,

Shall drop their blood in approbation Of what your reverence shall incite

us to. Therefore take heed how you impawn our person, How you awake

our sleeping sword of war- We charge you, in the name of God, take heed;

For never two such kingdoms did contend Without much fall of blood;

whose guiltless drops Are every one a woe, a sore complaint, 'Gainst him

whose wrongs gives edge unto the swords That makes such waste in brief

mortality. Under this conjuration speak, my lord; For we will hear, note,

and believe in heart, That what you speak is in your conscience wash'd As

pure as sin with baptism. CANTERBURY. Then hear me, gracious

sovereign, and you peers, That owe yourselves, your lives, and services,

To this imperial throne. There is no bar To make against your Highness'

claim to France But this, which they produce from Pharamond: 'In terram

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Salicam mulieres ne succedant'- 'No woman shall succeed in Salique land';

Which Salique land the French unjustly gloze To be the realm of France,

and Pharamond The founder of this law and female bar. Yet their own

authors faithfully affirm That the land Salique is in Germany, Between the

floods of Sala and of Elbe; Where Charles the Great, having subdu'd the

Saxons, There left behind and settled certain French; Who, holding in

disdain the German women For some dishonest manners of their life,

Establish'd then this law: to wit, no female Should be inheritrix in Salique

land; Which Salique, as I said, 'twixt Elbe and Sala, Is at this day in

Germany call'd Meisen. Then doth it well appear the Salique law Was not

devised for the realm of France; Nor did the French possess the Salique

land Until four hundred one and twenty years After defunction of King

Pharamond, Idly suppos'd the founder of this law; Who died within the

year of our redemption Four hundred twenty-six; and Charles the Great

Subdu'd the Saxons, and did seat the French Beyond the river Sala, in the

year Eight hundred five. Besides, their writers say, King Pepin, which

deposed Childeric, Did, as heir general, being descended Of Blithild,

which was daughter to King Clothair, Make claim and title to the crown of

France. Hugh Capet also, who usurp'd the crown Of Charles the Duke of

Lorraine, sole heir male Of the true line and stock of Charles the Great, To

find his title with some shows of truth- Though in pure truth it was corrupt

and naught- Convey'd himself as th' heir to th' Lady Lingare, Daughter to

Charlemain, who was the son To Lewis the Emperor, and Lewis the son

Of Charles the Great. Also King Lewis the Tenth, Who was sole heir to the

usurper Capet, Could not keep quiet in his conscience, Wearing the crown

of France, till satisfied That fair Queen Isabel, his grandmother, Was lineal

of the Lady Ermengare, Daughter to Charles the foresaid Duke of Lorraine;

By the which marriage the line of Charles the Great Was re-united to the

Crown of France. So that, as clear as is the summer's sun, King Pepin's

title, and Hugh Capet's claim, King Lewis his satisfaction, all appear To

hold in right and tide of the female; So do the kings of France unto this

day, Howbeit they would hold up this Salique law To bar your Highness

claiming from the female; And rather choose to hide them in a net Than

amply to imbar their crooked tides Usurp'd from you and your progenitors.

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KING HENRY. May I with right and conscience make this claim?

CANTERBURY. The sin upon my head, dread sovereign! For in the book

of Numbers is it writ, When the man dies, let the inheritance Descend unto

the daughter. Gracious lord, Stand for your own, unwind your bloody flag,

Look back into your mighty ancestors. Go, my dread lord, to your great-

grandsire's tomb, From whom you claim; invoke his warlike spirit, And

your great-uncle's, Edward the Black Prince, Who on the French ground

play'd a tragedy, Making defeat on the fun power of France, Whiles his

most mighty father on a hill Stood smiling to behold his lion's whelp

Forage in blood of French nobility. O noble English, that could entertain

With half their forces the full pride of France, And let another half stand

laughing by, All out of work and cold for action! ELY. Awake

remembrance of these valiant dead, And with your puissant arm renew

their feats. You are their heir; you sit upon their throne; The blood and

courage that renowned them Runs in your veins; and my thrice-puissant

liege Is in the very May-morn of his youth, Ripe for exploits and mighty

enterprises. EXETER. Your brother kings and monarchs of the earth Do all

expect that you should rouse yourself, As did the former lions of your

blood. WESTMORELAND. They know your Grace hath cause and means

and might- So hath your Highness; never King of England Had nobles

richer and more loyal subjects, Whose hearts have left their bodies here in

England And lie pavilion'd in the fields of France. CANTERBURY. O, let

their bodies follow, my dear liege, With blood and sword and fire to win

your right! In aid whereof we of the spiritualty Will raise your Highness

such a mighty sum As never did the clergy at one time Bring in to any of

your ancestors. KING HENRY. We must not only arm t' invade the French,

But lay down our proportions to defend Against the Scot, who will make

road upon us With all advantages. CANTERBURY. They of those marches,

gracious sovereign, Shall be a wall sufficient to defend Our inland from

the pilfering borderers. KING HENRY. We do not mean the coursing

snatchers only, But fear the main intendment of the Scot, Who hath been

still a giddy neighbour to us; For you shall read that my great-grandfather

Never went with his forces into France But that the Scot on his unfurnish'd

kingdom Came pouring, like the tide into a breach, With ample and brim

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fulness of his force, Galling the gleaned land with hot assays, Girdling

with grievous siege castles and towns; That England, being empty of

defence, Hath shook and trembled at th' ill neighbourhood.

CANTERBURY. She hath been then more fear'd than harm'd, my liege;

For hear her but exampled by herself: When all her chivalry hath been in

France, And she a mourning widow of her nobles, She hath herself not

only well defended But taken and impounded as a stray The King of Scots;

whom she did send to France, To fill King Edward's fame with prisoner

kings, And make her chronicle as rich with praise As is the ooze and

bottom of the sea With sunken wreck and sumless treasuries.

WESTMORELAND. But there's a saying, very old and true:

'If that you will France win, Then with Scotland first begin.' For once

the eagle England being in prey, To her unguarded nest the weasel Scot

Comes sneaking, and so sucks her princely eggs, Playing the mouse in

absence of the cat, To tear and havoc more than she can eat. EXETER. It

follows, then, the cat must stay at home; Yet that is but a crush'd necessity,

Since we have locks to safeguard necessaries And pretty traps to catch the

petty thieves. While that the armed hand doth fight abroad, Th' advised

head defends itself at home; For government, though high, and low, and

lower, Put into parts, doth keep in one consent, Congreeing in a full and

natural close, Like music. CANTERBURY. Therefore doth heaven divide

The state of man in divers functions, Setting endeavour in continual

motion; To which is fixed as an aim or but Obedience; for so work the

honey bees, Creatures that by a rule in nature teach The act of order to a

peopled kingdom. They have a king, and officers of sorts, Where some

like magistrates correct at home; Others like merchants venture trade

abroad; Others like soldiers, armed in their stings, Make boot upon the

summer's velvet buds, Which pillage they with merry march bring home

To the tent-royal of their emperor; Who, busied in his majesty, surveys

The singing masons building roofs of gold, The civil citizens kneading up

the honey, The poor mechanic porters crowding in Their heavy burdens at

his narrow gate, The sad-ey'd justice, with his surly hum, Delivering o'er

to executors pale The lazy yawning drone. I this infer, That many things,

having full reference To one consent, may work contrariously; As many

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arrows loosed several ways Come to one mark, as many ways meet in one

town, As many fresh streams meet in one salt sea, As many lines close in

the dial's centre; So many a thousand actions, once afoot, End in one

purpose, and be all well home Without defeat. Therefore to France, my

liege. Divide your happy England into four; Whereof take you one quarter

into France, And you withal shall make all Gallia shake. If we, with thrice

such powers left at home, Cannot defend our own doors from the dog, Let

us be worried, and our nation lose The name of hardiness and policy.

KING HENRY. Call in the messengers sent from the Dauphin. Exeunt

some attendants Now are we well resolv'd; and, by God's help And yours,

the noble sinews of our power, France being ours, we'll bend it to our awe,

Or break it all to pieces; or there we'll sit, Ruling in large and ample

empery O'er France and all her almost kingly dukedoms, Or lay these

bones in an unworthy urn, Tombless, with no remembrance over them.

Either our history shall with full mouth Speak freely of our acts, or else

our grave, Like Turkish mute, shall have a tongueless mouth, Not

worshipp'd with a waxen epitaph.

Enter AMBASSADORS of France

Now are we well prepar'd to know the pleasure Of our fair cousin

Dauphin; for we hear Your greeting is from him, not from the King.

AMBASSADOR. May't please your Majesty to give us leave Freely to

render what we have in charge; Or shall we sparingly show you far of The

Dauphin's meaning and our embassy? KING HENRY. We are no tyrant,

but a Christian king, Unto whose grace our passion is as subject As are our

wretches fett'red in our prisons; Therefore with frank and with uncurbed

plainness Tell us the Dauphin's mind. AMBASSADOR. Thus then, in few.

Your Highness, lately sending into France, Did claim some certain

dukedoms in the right Of your great predecessor, King Edward the Third.

In answer of which claim, the Prince our master Says that you savour too

much of your youth, And bids you be advis'd there's nought in France That

can be with a nimble galliard won; You cannot revel into dukedoms there.

He therefore sends you, meeter for your spirit, This tun of treasure; and, in

lieu of this, Desires you let the dukedoms that you claim Hear no more of

you. This the Dauphin speaks. KING HENRY. What treasure, uncle?

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