Con. Nor will do none to-morrow; he will

keep that good name still.

Orl. I know him to be valiant.

Con. I was told that, by one that knows him.

better than you.

Orl. What's he?

Con. Marry, he told me so himself; and he said, he cared not who knew it.

Orl. He needs not, it is no hidden virtue in him.

Con. By my faith, Sir, but it is; never any body saw it, but his lacquey: 'tis a hooded valour; and, when it appears, it will bate. Orl. Ill will never said well.

Con. I will cap that proverb with There is flattery in friendship.

- Give the

Orl. And I will take up that with evil his due.

Con. Well placed; there stands your friend for the devil: have at the very eye of that proverb, with - A pox of the devil.

Orl. You are the better at proverbs, by how much A fool's holt is soon shot. Con. You have shot over.

Orl 'Tis not the first time you were overshot.

Enter a Messenger.

Mess. My Lord high Constable, the English lie

within fifteen hundred paces of your tent.
Con. Who hath measured the ground?
Mess. The lord Grandpré.
Con. A valiant and most expert gentleman. -
Would it were day!
Alas, poor Harry of
England! he longs not for the dawning as we do.
Orl. What a wretched and peevish fellow is this

King of England, to mope with his fat-brain'd followers so far out of his knowledge!

Con. If the English had any apprehension, they would run away.

Orl. That they lack; for if their heads had any intellectual armour, they could never wear such heavy head pieces.

Ram. That island of England breeds very valiant creatures; their mastiffs are of unmatchable courage.

Orl. Foolish curs! that run winking into the mouth of a Russian bear, and have their heads crush'd like rotten apples: You may as well say, that's a valiant flea, that dare eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.

Con. Just, just; and the men do sympathize with the mastiffs, in robustious and rough coming on, leaving their wits with their wives: and then give them great meals of beef, and iron and steel, they will eat like wolves, and fight like devils.

Orl. Ay, but these English are shrewdly out

of beef.

Con. Then we shall find to-morrow they have only stomachs to eat, and none to fight. Now is it time to arm; Come, shall we about it? Orl. It is now two o'clock: but let me see,

by ten,

We shall have each a hundred Englishmen.

[Exeunt.

ACT IV.

ACT IV.

Enter CHORUS.

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Chorus. Now entertain conjecture of a time, When creeping murmur, and the poring dark, Fills the wide vessel of the universe.

From camp to camp, through the foul womb of

night,

The hum of either army stilly sounds,
That the fix'd sentinels almost receive
The secret whispers of each other's watch:
Fire answers fire; and through their paly flames,

Each battle sees the other's umber'd face:
Steed threatens steed, in high and boastful neighs
Piercing the night's dull ear; and from the tents,
The armourers, accomplishing the knights,
With busy hammers closing rivets up,
Give dreadful note of preparation.
The country cocks do crow, the clocks do toll,
And the third hour of drowsy morning name.
Proud of their numbers, and secure in soul,
The confident and over-lusty French
Do the low-rated English play at dice;
And chide the cripple tardy-gaited night,
Who, like a foul and ugly witch, doth limp
So tediously away. The poor condemned

English,

Like sacrifices, by their watchful fires
Sit patiently, and inly ruminate

The morning's danger; and their gesture sad,
Investing lank-lean cheeks, and war-worn coats,

Presenteth them unto the gazing moon

So many horrid ghosts. O, now, who will

VOL. X.

behold

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The royal captain of this ruin'd band,
Walking from watch to watch, from tent to tent,

Let him cry

Praise and glory on his head!

For forth he goes, and visits all his host;

Bids them good morrow, with a nodest smile;

And calls them - brothers, friends, and coun

trymen.

Upon his royal face there is no note,
How dread an army hath enrounded him;
Nor doth he dedicate one jot of colour
Unto the weary and all-watched night:
But freshly looks', and over-bears attaint,
With cheerful semblance, and sweet majesty;
That every wretch, pining and pale before,
Beholding him, plucks comfort from his looks:
A largess universal, like the sun,
His liberal eye doth give to every one,
Thawing cold fear. Then, mean and gentle all,
Behold, as may unworthiness define,
A little touch of Harry in the night:
And so our scene must to the battle fly;
Where, (O for pity!) we shall much disgrace -
With four or five most vile and ragged foils,
Right ill dispos'd, in brawl ridiculous,
The name of Agincourt: Yet, sit and see;
Minding true things, by what their mockeries be.
[Exit.

SCENE Ι.

The English Camp at Agincourt. Enter King HENRY, BEDFORD, and GLOSTER.

K. Hen. Gloster, 'tis true, that we are in great danger; The greater therefore should our courage be. Good morrow, brother Bedford. - God Al

mighty!

There is some soul of goodness in things evil,
Would men observingly distil it out;
For our bad neighbour makes us early stirrers,
Which is both healthful, and good husbandry:
Besides, they are our outward consciences,
And preachers to us all; admonishing,
That we should dress us fairly for our end.
Thus may we gather honey from the weed,
And make a moral of the devil himself.

Enter ERPINGHAM.

Good morrow, old Sir Thomas Erpingham:
A good soft pillow for that good white head
Were better than a churlish turf of France.

Erp. Not so, my Liege; this lodging likes me better,

Since I may say - now lie I like a King.

K. Hen. "Tis good for men to love their pre

sent pains,

Upon example; so the spirit is eased:
And, when the mind is quicken'd, out of doubt,
The organs, though defunct and dead before,
Break up their drowsy grave, and newly move
With casted slough and fresh legerity.

Lend me thy cloak, Sir Thomas.

both,

Brothers

Commend me to the Princes in our camp;

Do my good morrow to them; and, anon,

Desire them all to my pavilion.

Glo. We shall, my Liege.

[Exeunt GLOSTER and BEDFORD,

Erp. Shall I attend your Grace?

K. Hen. No, my good Knight;

Go with my brothers to my lords of England: