Shallow, be what thou wilt; I am fortune's steward. Get on thy boots we'll ride all night.-O sweet Pistol!-Away, Bardolph!-[Exit BARD.] Come, Pistol, utter more to me; and, withal, devise something to do thyself good. Root, boot, master Shallow: I know the young king is sick for me. Let us take any man's horses; the laws of England are at my commandment. Happy are they which have been my friends; and woe unto my lord chief justice!

Pist. Let vultures vile seize on his lungs also! "Where is the life that late I led?" say they: Why, here it is;-welcome these pleasant days!

[Exeunt.

SCENE V.-A Public Place near Westminster Abbey.

Enter two Grooms, strewing rushes.

1 Groom. More rushes, more rushes.

2 Groom. The trumpets have sounded twice.

1 Groom. It will be two o'clock ere they come from the coronation: despatch, despatch. [Exeunt Grooms.

Enter FALSTAFF, SHALLOW, PISTOL, BARDOLPH, and Page.

Fal. Stand here by me, master Robert Shallow; I will make the king do you grace: I will leer upon him, as he comes by; and do but mark the countenance that he will give me.

Pist. Heaven bless thy lungs, good knight.

Fal. Come here, Pistol; stand behind me.-[To SHALLOW.] O, if I had had time to have made new liveries, I would have bestowed the thousand pound I borrowed of you. But 'tis no matter; this poor show doth better: this doth infer the zeal I had to see him,—

Shal. It doth so.

Fal. It shows my earnestness of affection,

Shal. It doth so.

Fal. My devotion,

Shal. It doth, it doth, it doth.

Fal. As it were, to ride day and night; and not to deliberate, not to remember, not to have patience to shift me,

Shal. It is most certain.

Fal. But to stand stained with travel, and sweating with desire to see him; thinking of nothing else, putting all affairs else in oblivion, as if there were nothing else to be done but to see him.

Pist. 'Tis all in every part.
Shal. 'Tis so, indeed. [Shouts within and trumpets sound.
Pist. There roar'd the sea, and trumpet-clangor sounds.

Enter KING and his train, the Chief Justice among them.
Ful. Heaven save thy grace, king Hal! my royal Hal!

Pist. The heavens thee guard and keep, most royal imp of fame!

Fal. Heaven save thee, my sweet boy!

King. My lord chief justice, speak to that vain man.

Ch. Just. Have you your wits? know you what 'tis you speak ?
Fal. My king! my Jove! I speak to thee, my heart!
King. I know thee not, old man: fall to thy prayers;

How ill white hairs become a fool, and jester!

I have long dream'd of such a kind of man,
So surfeit-swell'd, so old, and so profane;
But, being awake, I do despise my dream.
Make less thy body hence, and more thy grace;
Leave gormandizing; know, the grave doth gape
For thee thrice wider than for other men.-
Reply not to me with a fool-born jest:
Presume not that I am the thing I was;

For heaven doth know, so shall the world perceive,
That I have turn'd away my former self;
So will I those that kept me company.
When thou dost hear I am as I have been,
Approach me, and thou shalt be as thou wast,
The tutor and the feeder of my riots:
Till then I banish thee, on pain of death,-
As I have done the rest of my misleaders,—
Not to come near our person by ten mile.
For competence of life I will allow you,
That lack of means enforce you not to evil;
And, as we hear you do reform yourselves,

We will, according to your strength and qualities,

Give you advancement.-[To Ch. Just.] Be it your charge, my

lord,

To see perform'd the tenor of our word.—

Set on. [Exeunt KING and his train. Fal. Master Shallow, I owe you a thousand pound.

Shal. Ay, marry, Sir John; which I beseech you to let me have home with me.

Fal. That can hardly be, master Shallow. Do not you grieve at this; I shall be sent for in private to him: look you, he must seem thus to the world: fear not your advancement; I will be the man yet that shall make you great.

Shal. I cannot perceive how; unless you should give me your doublet, and stuff me out with straw. I beseech you, good Sir John, let me have five hundred of my thousand.

Fal. Sir, I will be as good as my word: this that you heard was but a color.

Shal. A color, I fear, that you will die in, Sir John.

Fal. Fear no colors: go with me to dinner :--come, lieutenant Pistol; come, Bardolph:—I shall be sent for soon at night.

Re-enter PRINCE JOHN, the Chief Justice, Officers, &c.
Ch. Just. Go, carry Sir John Falstaff to the Fleet:
Take all his company along with him.

Fal. My lord, my lord,

Ch. Just. I cannot now speak: I will hear you soon.— Take them away.

[Exeunt FAL. SHAL. PIST. BARD. and Page, with Officers. P. John. I like this fair proceeding of the king's: He hath intent his wonted followers

Shall all be very well provided for;

But all are banish'd, till their conversations
Appear more wise and modest to the world.

Ch. Just. And so they are.

P. John. The king hath call'd his parliament, my lord.
Ch. Just. He hath.

P. John. I will lay odds, that, ere this year expire,
We bear our civil swords and native fire

As far as France: I heard a bird so sing,

Whose music, to my thinking, pleas'd the king.
Come, will you hence?

[Exeunt.

THE HISTORY OF

KING HENRY V.

This play was styled in the earlier editions a "Chronicle History," which it strictly is, in a dramatic form-" for it borrows nothing from mere invention in incident, and scarcely in character." The story, in all its details, is purely historical; and even the comic personages introduced are almost historical in their character, exhibiting, as they do, types or representatives of the classes of the period. The period comprised in this Dramatic History commences about the latter end of the first, and terminates in the eighth year of this king's reign; when he married Katharine of France, and closed up the differences betwixt England and that crown.

PERSONS REPRESENTED.

KING HENRY THE FIFTH.

DUKE OF GLOSTER,

DUKE OF BEDFORD, Brothers to the KING.

DUKE OF EXETER, Uncle to the KING.

DUKE OF YORK, Cousin to the KING.

EARLS OF SALISBURY, WESTMORELAND, and WARWICK.

ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY.

BISHOP OF ELY.

EARL OF CAMBRIDGE,

LORD SCROOP,

Sir THOMAS GREY,

Conspirators.

Sir THOMAS ERPINGHAM, GOWER, FLUELLEN, MACMORRIS, JAMY, Officers in

KING HENRY'S Army.

BATES, COURT, WILLIAMS, Soldiers in the Same.

PISTOL, NYM, BARDOLPH.

Boy, Servant to them. A Herald.

CHARLES THE SIXTH, King of France.

LEWIS, the Dauphin.

DUKES OF BURGUNDY, ORLEANS, and BOURBON.

The Constable of France.

RAMBURES, and GRANDPRE, French Lords.

MONTJOY, a French Herald.

Governor of Harfleur.

Embassadors to England.

ISABEL, Queen of France.

KATHARINE, Daughter of CHARLES and ISABEL.

ALICE, a Lady attending on the Princess Katharine.

Hostess of the Boar's Head Tavern in Eastcheap; formerly Mistress QUICKLY, now wife to PISTOL.

Lords, Ladies, Officers, Soldiers, Citizens, Messengers, and Attendants. SCENE,-IN ENGLAND and in FRANCE.

ACT I.

SCENE I.-London. An Ante-chamber in the KING's Palace.

Enter the ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY and the BISHOP OF ELY.

Cant. My lord, I'll tell you,-that self bill is urg'd,

Which in th' eleventh year of the last king's reign
Was like, and had indeed against us pass'd,

But that the scambling and unquiet time

Did push it out of farther question.

Ely. But how, my lord, shall we resist it now?

Cant. It must be thought on. If it pass against us,

We lose the better half of our possession:

For all the temporal lands, which men devout

By testament have given to the church,

Would they strip from us.

Ely. This would drink deep.
Cant.

Ely. But what prevention?

'Twould drink the cup and all.

Cant. The king is full of grace, and fair regard.
Ely. And a true lover of the holy church.
Cant. The courses of his youth promis'd it not.
The breath no sooner left his father's body,
But that his wildness, mortified in him,
Seem'd to die too; yea, at that very moment,
Consideration like an angel came,

And whipp'd th' offending Adam out of him,
Leaving his body as a paradise,

To envelope and contain celestial spirits.
Never was such a sudden scholar made;
Never came reformation in a flood,

With such a heady current, scouring faults;
Nor never Hydra-headed wilfulness