Boy. And that's but unwholesome food, they say.[4787]55
Pist. Touch her soft mouth, and march.
Bard. Farewell, hostess. [Kissing her.[4788]
Nym. I cannot kiss, that is the humour of it; but, adieu.
Pist. Let housewifery appear: keep close, I thee command.
Host. Farewell; adieu. [Exeunt.60
Scene IV. France. The King's Palace.
Flourish. Enter the French King, the Dauphin, the Dukes of Berri and Bretagne, the Constable, and others.[4789]
Fr. King. Thus comes the English with full power upon us;[4790]
And more than carefully it us concerns[4791]
To answer royally in our defences.
Therefore the Dukes of Berri and of Bretagne,
Of Brabant and of Orleans, shall make forth,[4792]5
And you, Prince Dauphin, with all swift dispatch,
To line and new repair our towns of war
With men of courage and with means defendant;
For England his approaches makes as fierce
As waters to the sucking of a gulf.10
It fits us then to be as provident
As fear may teach us out of late examples
Left by the fatal and neglected English[4793]
Upon our fields.
Dau. My most redoubted father,
It is most meet we arm us 'gainst the foe;15
For peace itself should not so dull a kingdom,
Though war nor no known quarrel were in question,
But that defences, musters, preparations,
Should be maintain'd, assembled and collected,
As were a war in expectation.20
Therefore, I say 'tis meet we all go forth
To view the sick and feeble parts of France:
And let us do it with no show of fear;[4794]
No, with no more than if we heard that England
Were busied with a Whitsun morris-dance:25
For, my good liege, she is so idly king'd,
Her sceptre so fantastically borne
By a vain, giddy, shallow, humorous youth,[4795]
That fear attends her not.