If my tongue cannot entreat you to acquit me, will you command me to use my legs? And yet that were but light payment, to dance out of your debt. But a good conscience will make any possible satisfaction, and so would I. All the gentlewomen here have forgiven me; if the gentlemen will not, then the gentlemen do not agree with the gentlewomen, which was never seen before in such an assembly.

One word more, I beseech you. If you be not too much cloyed with fat meat, our humble author will continue the story, with Sir John in it, and make you merry with fair Katharine of France; where, for anything I know, Falstaff shall die of a sweat, unless already he be killed with your hard opinions; for Oldcastle died a martyr, and this is not the man. My tongue is weary; when my legs are too, I will bid you good night.

THE LIFE OF KING HENRY THE FIFTH

Contents

ACT I
[Prologue.]
[Scene I. London. An ante-chamber in the King’s palace.]
[Scene II. The same. The presence chamber.]
ACT II
[Chorus.]
[Scene I. London. A street.]
[Scene II. Southampton. A council-chamber.]
[Scene III. London. Before a tavern.]
[Scene IV. France. The King’s palace.]
ACT III
[Chorus.]
[Scene I. France. Before Harfleur.]
[Scene II. The same.]
[Scene III. Before the gates.]
[Scene IV. The French King’s palace.]
[Scene V. The same.]
[Scene VI. The English camp in Picardy.]
[Scene VII. The French camp, near Agincourt.]
ACT IV
[Chorus.]
[Scene I. The English camp at Agincourt.]
[Scene II. The French camp.]
[Scene III. The English camp.]
[Scene IV. The field of battle.]
[Scene V. Another part of the field.]
[Scene VI. Another part of the field.]
[Scene VII. Another part of the field.]
[Scene VIII. Before King Henry’s pavilion.]
ACT V
[Chorus.]
[Scene I. France. The English camp.]
[Scene II. France. A royal palace.]
[Epilogue.]

Dramatis Personæ

KING HENRY V.
DUKE OF CLARENCE, brother to the King.
DUKE OF BEDFORD, brother to the King.
DUKE OF GLOUCESTER, brother to the King.
DUKE OF EXETER, uncle to the King.
DUKE OF YORK, cousin to the King.
EARL OF SALISBURY.
EARL OF HUNTINGDON.
EARL OF WESTMORLAND.
EARL OF WARWICK.
ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY.
BISHOP OF ELY.
EARL OF CAMBRIDGE.
LORD SCROOP.
SIR THOMAS GREY.
SIR THOMAS ERPINGHAM, officer in King Henry’s army.
GOWER, officer in King Henry’s army.
FLUELLEN, officer in King Henry’s army.
MACMORRIS, officer in King Henry’s army.
JAMY, officer in King Henry’s army.
BATES, soldier in the same.
COURT, soldier in the same.
WILLIAMS, soldier in the same.
PISTOL.
NYM.
BARDOLPH.
BOY.
A Herald.

CHARLES VI, king of France.
LEWIS, the Dauphin.
DUKE OF BERRY.
DUKE OF BRITTANY.
DUKE OF BURGUNDY.
DUKE OF ORLEANS.
DUKE OF BOURBON.
The Constable of France.
RAMBURES, French Lord.
GRANDPRÉ, French Lord.
Governor of Harfleur
MONTJOY, a French herald.
Ambassadors to the King of England.

ISABEL, queen of France.
KATHARINE, daughter to Charles and Isabel.
ALICE, a lady attending on her.
HOSTESS of a tavern in Eastcheap, formerly Mistress Nell Quickly, and now married to Pistol.