to your leek? (Strikes) there is not enough leek to swear by. PISTOL Quiet thy cudgel; thou dost see, I eat. FLUELLEN Much goot do you, scald knave, heartily. Nay, pray you, throw none away, the skin is goot for your proken coxcomb. When you take occasions to seek leeks hereafter, I pray you mock at 'em ; that is all. (Going, Left.) Yes, verily, and in truth you shall take it; or I have another leek in my pocket, which you shall eat. PISTOL I take thy groat, in earnest of revenge. FLUELLEN If I owe you anything I will pay you in cudgels. (Shakes cudgel under PISTOL's nose.) Heaven be wi' you, and keep you, and heal your pate. (Strikes again. Exit with GowER, Left.) PISTOL (draws sword with a growl and a flourish, mightily bold) All hell shall stir for this. (He struts boldly off, but, perceiving FLUELLEN, lowers his sword and runs in the opposite direction.) The THIRD Scene (Interior of the Cathedral at Troyes. Ceremony of the Espousal of KING HENRY and the PRINCESS KATHERINE. (1) ) Right and left outside the chancel screen stand French and English nobles. Enter the surpliced choir of boys and men, singing. They march into the chancei and dispose themselves either side of the altar. Following the choir, crucifers and thurifers, come three Archbishops in full canonicals. The ecclesiastics ascend the steps of the high altar. The FRENCH KING leads in the PRINCESS KATHERINE in her bridal robes, the train borne by six pages of Valois in pure white. The DUKE of BURGUNDY escorts QUEEN ISABEL, followed by LADY ALICE, the French Court and attendants. They dispose themselves without the chancel on the left. KING HENRY, preceded by eight pages of Lancaster, enters from the opposite side. The English nobles in full armour follow him, and dispose themselves outside the chancel on the right. KING HENRY advances to the foot of the altar and genuflects to receive the prelates' blessing. He returns and leads the PRINCESS KATHERINE to the foot of the altar. They and all kneel while the ARCHBISHOP of SENS blesses them. The choir breaks forth into a joyous Gloria. (Curtain.) The END of the FIFTH ACT (1) On the morrow of Trinity-day the King of England espoused her in the parish church near to where he was lodged. Great pomp and magnificence were displayed by him and his prince, as if he were at that moment King of all the world.-Monstrelet. |