Con. O peace Prince Dolphin, you deceiue your selfe,15
Question your grace the late Embassador,
With what regard he heard his Embassage,
How well supplied with aged Counsellours,
And how his resolution andswered him.
You then would say that Harry was not wilde.20
King. Well thinke we Harry strong:
And strongly arme us to preuent the foe.
Con. My Lord here is an Embassador
From the King of England.
Kin. Bid him come in.25
You see this chase is hotly followed Lords.
Dol. My gracious father, cut up this English short.
Selfeloue my liege is not so vile a thing,
As selfe neglecting.
Enter Exeter.
King. From our brother England?[5482]30
Exe. From him, and thus he greets your Maiestie:
He wils you in the name of God Almightie,
That you deuest your selfe and lay apart
That borrowed tytle, which by gift of heauen,
Of lawe of nature, and of nations, longs[5483]35
To him and to his heires, namely the crmvne
And all wide stretched titles that belongs
Unto the Crowne of France, that you may know
Tis no sinister, nor no awkeward claime,
Pickt from the wormeholes of old vanisht dayes,40
Nor from the dust of old obliuion rackte,
He sends you these most memorable lynes,
In euery branch truly demonstrated:
Willing you ouerlooke this pedigree,
And when you finde him euenly deriued45
From his most famed and famous ancestors,
Edward the third, he bids you then resigne
Your crowne and kingdome, indirectly held
From him, the natiue and true challenger.
King. If not, what followes?50
Exe. Bloody costraint, for if you hide the crown
Euen in your hearts, there will he rake for it:
Therefore in fierce tempest is he comming,
In thunder, and in earthquake, like a Ioue,
That if requiring faile, he will compell it:55
And on your heads turnes he the widowes teares,
The Orphanes cries, the dead mens bones,[5484]
The pining maydens grones.
For husbands, fathers, and distressed louers,
Which shall be swallowed in this controuersie.60
This is his claime, his threatning, and my message.[5485]
Vnles the Dolphin be in presence here,
To whom expresly we bring greeting too.