Henry V - William Shakespeare (booksvooks txt) 📗
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O, Signieur Dew should be a gentleman:
Perpend my words, O Signieur Dew, and mark;
O Signieur Dew, thou diest on point of fox,
Except, O signieur, thou do give to me
Egregious ransom.
Moy shall not serve; I will have forty moys;
Or I will fetch thy rim out at thy throat
In drops of crimson blood.
Brass, cur!
Thou damned and luxurious mountain goat,
Offer’st me brass?
Say’st thou me so? is that a ton of moys?
Come hither, boy: ask me this slave in French
What is his name.
Owy, cuppele gorge, permafoy,
Peasant, unless thou give me crowns, brave crowns;
Or mangled shalt thou be by this my sword.
Tell him my fury shall abate, and I
The crowns will take.
Another part of the field of battle.
Enter Constable, Orleans, Bourbon, Dauphin, and Rambures. Constable O diable! Orleans O seigneur! le jour est perdu, tout est perdu! DauphinMort de ma vie! all is confounded, all!
Reproach and everlasting shame
Sits mocking in our plumes. O méchante fortune!
Do not run away. A short alarum.
O perdurable shame! let’s stab ourselves.
Be these the wretches that we play’d at dice for?
Shame and eternal shame, nothing but shame!
Let’s die in honour: once more back again;
And he that will not follow Bourbon now,
Let him go hence, and with his cap in hand,
Like a base pandar, hold the chamber-door
Whilst by a slave, no gentler than my dog,
His fairest daughter is contaminated.
Disorder, that hath spoil’d us, friend us now!
Let us on heaps go offer up our lives.
We are enough yet living in the field
To smother up the English in our throngs,
If any order might be thought upon.
The devil take order now! I’ll to the throng;
Let life be short; else shame will be too long. Exeunt.
Another part of the field.
Alarums. Enter King Henry, and forces, Exeter, and others. King HenryWell have we done, thrice valiant countrymen:
But all’s not done; yet keep the French the field.
Lives he, good uncle? thrice within this hour
I saw him down; thrice up again, and fighting;
From helmet to the spur all blood he was.
In which array, brave soldier, doth he lie,
Larding the plain; and by his bloody side,
Yoke-fellow to his honour-owing wounds,
The noble Earl of Suffolk also lies.
Suffolk first died: and York, all haggled over,
Comes to him, where in gore he lay insteep’d,
And takes him by the beard; kisses the gashes
That bloodily did yawn upon his face;
He cries aloud “Tarry, my cousin Suffolk!
My soul shall thine keep company to heaven;
Tarry, sweet soul, for mine, then fly abreast,
As in this glorious and well-foughten field
We kept together in our chivalry!”
Upon these words I came and cheer’d him up:
He smiled me in the face, raught me his hand,
And, with a feeble gripe, says, “Dear my lord,
Commend my service to my sovereign.”
So did he turn and over Suffolk’s neck
He threw his wounded arm and kiss’d his lips;
And so espoused to death, with blood he seal’d
A testament of noble-ending love.
The pretty and sweet manner of it forced
Those waters from me which I would have
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