Re-enter Lords, with Exeter and train.
Fr. King. From our brother England?[4808]75
Exe. From him; and thus he greets your majesty.
He wills you, in the name of God Almighty,
That you divest yourself, and lay apart
The borrow'd glories that by gift of heaven,
By law of nature and of nations, 'long[4809]80
To him and to his heirs; namely, the crown
And all wide-stretched honours that pertain
By custom and the ordinance of times
Unto the crown of France. That you may know
'Tis no sinister nor no awkward claim,85
Pick'd from the worm-holes of long-vanish'd days,
Nor from the dust of old oblivion raked,
He sends you this most memorable line,[4810]
In every branch truly demonstrative;[4811]
Willing you overlook this pedigree:[4812]90
And when you find him evenly derived
From his most famed of famous ancestors,
Edward the third, he bids you then resign
Your crown and kingdom, indirectly held
From him the native and true challenger.95
Fr. King. Or else what follows?
Exe. Bloody constraint; for if you hide the crown
Even in your hearts, there will he rake for it:
Therefore in fierce tempest is he coming,[4813]
In thunder and in earthquake, like a Jove,100
That, if requiring fail, he will compel;[4814]
And bids you, in the bowels of the Lord,[4815]
Deliver up the crown, and to take mercy
On the poor souls for whom this hungry war
Opens his vasty jaws; and on your head[4816]105
Turning the widows' tears, the orphans' cries,[4817][4818]
The dead men's blood, the pining maidens' groans,[4818][4819]
For husbands, fathers and betrothed lovers,
That shall be swallow'd in this controversy.
This is his claim, his threatening and my message;110
Unless the Dauphin be in presence here,
To whom expressly I bring greeting too.[4820]
Fr. King. For us, we will consider of this further:
To-morrow shall you bear our full intent
Back to our brother England.[4821]
Dau. For the Dauphin,115
I stand here for him: what to him from England?
Exe. Scorn and defiance; slight regard, contempt,
And any thing that may not misbecome
The mighty sender, doth he prize you at.
Thus says my king; an if your father's highness[4822]120
Do not, in grant of all demands at large,
Sweeten the bitter mock you sent his majesty,
He'll call you to so hot an answer of it,[4823]
That caves and womby vaultages of France
Shall chide your trespass and return your mock[4824]125
In second accent of his ordnance.[4825]
Dau. Say, if my father render fair return,[4826]
It is against my will; for I desire
Nothing but odds with England: to that end,[4827]
As matching to his youth and vanity,[4827]130
I did present him with the Paris balls.[4828]
Exe. He'll make your Paris Louvre shake for it,[4829]
Were it the mistress-court of mighty Europe:
And, be assured, you'll find a difference,
As we his subjects have in wonder found,135
Between the promise of his greener days
And these he masters now: now he weighs time[4830]
Even to the utmost grain: that you shall read[4831]
In your own losses, if he stay in France.[4832]