KING HENRY.
Though it appear a little out of fashion,
There is much care and valour in this Welshman.
Enter three soldiers, John Bates, Alexander Court and Michael Williams.
COURT.
Brother John Bates, is not that the morning which breaks yonder?
BATES.
I think it be; but we have no great cause to desire the approach of day.
WILLIAMS.
We see yonder the beginning of the day, but I think we shall never see the end of it. Who goes there?
KING HENRY.
A friend.
WILLIAMS.
Under what captain serve you?
KING HENRY.
Under Sir Thomas Erpingham.
WILLIAMS.
A good old commander and a most kind gentleman. I pray you, what thinks he of our estate?
KING HENRY.
Even as men wreck’d upon a sand, that look to be wash’d off the next tide.