Exe. He'll make your Paris Louvre shake for it, Fr. King. To-morrow shall you know our mind Exe. Dispatch us with all speed, lest that our king Come here himself to question our delay; For he is footed in this land already. Fr. King. You shall be soon dispatch'd with A night is but small breath and little pause 140 [Flourish. Exeunt. ACT III. PROLOGUE. Enter Chorus. Chor. Thus with imagined wing our swift scene flies In motion of no less celerity Than that of thought. Suppose that you have seen 137. masters, possesses, dis poses of. 145. breath, breathing-space. 1. imagined wing, on wings of imagination. The well-appointed king at Hampton pier Holding due course to Harfleur. Follow, follow: siege; Behold the ordnance on their carriages, With fatal mouths gaping on girded Harfleur. back; Tells Harry that the king doth offer him 4. Hampton. Theobald's correction. Ff (through an oversight) read Dover.' 5. brave, gaily decked. 6. the young Phœbus fanning, fluttering in the morning sun. 14. rivage, shore. ΤΟ 20 30 17. Harfleur. Qq Ff give the popular form of the name 'Harflew' (Holinshed, 'Harflue'). 18. to sternage of, astern of. 28. Suppose, etc. This embassy actually met Henry at Winchester. The offer likes not: and the nimble gunner [Exit. SCENE I. France. Before Harfleur. Alarum. Enter KING HENRY, EXETER, BED. FORD, GLOUCESTER, and Soldiers, with scalingladders. K. Hen. Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; Or close the wall up with our English dead. But when the blast of war blows in our ears, O'erhang and jutty his confounded base, Now set the teeth and stretch the nostril wide, 33. linstock, the stick to which the gunner's match was attached. 33. chambers, small cannon, loaded by a movable 'chamber' at the breech. 8. hard-favour'd, grim-looking. ΙΟ 10. portage, 'port-holes,' i. e. eye-sockets. 13. jutty, jet or project over. ib. confounded, destroyed, swallowed up. 16. bend up; as in stringing a bow. To his full height. On, on, you noblest English, Have in these parts from morn till even fought And teach them how to war. And you, good yeomen, Whose limbs were made in England, show us here The mettle of your pasture; let us swear That you are worth your breeding; which I doubt not; For there is none of you so mean and base, 20 30 SCENE II. The same. Enter NYM, BARDOLPH, PISTOL, and Boy. Bard. On, on, on, on, on! to the breach, to the breach! Nym. Pray thee, corporal, stay: the knocks are too hot; and, for mine own part, I have not 18. fet, fetched, derived. 21. argument, matter. The parallel to Alexander makes it probable that lack of enemies to conquer rather than of 'cause to fight for' is meant; none 32. Straining. Rowe's correction for Ff straying.' a case of lives: the humour of it is too hot, that is the very plain-song of it. Pist. The plain-song is most just; for humours do abound: Knocks go and come; God's vassals drop and die; And sword and shield, In bloody field, Doth win immortal fame. Boy. Would I were in an alehouse in London ! I would give all my fame for a pot of ale and safety. Pist. And I: If wishes would prevail with me, My purpose should not fail with me, But thither would I hie. Boy. As duly, but not as truly, you cullions! As bird doth sing on bough. Enter FLUELLEN. Flu. Up to the breach, you dogs! avaunt, [Driving them forward. Pist. Be merciful, great duke, to men of mould. Abate thy rage, abate thy manly rage, Abate thy rage, great duke! Good bawcock, bate thy rage; use lenity, sweet chuck! Nym. These be good humours! your honour wins bad humours. Boy. As young as I am, 5. case of lives, a set of lives. Nym's further allusion to 'plainsong' makes it likely that the allusion is to the 'case of four musical instruments making up the consort' of four parts, not to the case of (two) pistols. [Exeunt all but Boy. I have observed these ΤΟ 20 6. plain-song, simple melody without variations. 22. cullions, noodles, dolts. 23. duke, general. 26. bawcock (Fr. 'beau coq'), a term of endearment. 28. wins, prevails over. |