If truth and upright innocency fail me, Enter King Henry V. Ch. Just. Good morrow; and heaven save your majesty ! King. This new and gorgeous garment, majesty, Sits not so easy on me as you think. Brothers, you mix your sadness with some fear; But Harry Harry: Yet be sad, good brothers, That I will deeply put the fashion on, And wear it in my heart. Why then, be sad: P. John, &c. We hope no other from your ma. jesty. King. You all look strangely on me :-and you [To the Chief Justice. most; You are, I think, assur'd I love you not. Ch. Just. I am assur'd, if I be measur'd rightly, How might a prince of my great hopes forget Emperor of the Turks, died in 1596; his son, which succeeded him, had all his brothers strangled. What! rate, rebuke, and roughly send to prison, And did commit you. If the deed were ill, King. You are right, justice, and you weigh this well; Therefore still bear the balance, and the sword: • Crown. + Treat with contempt your acts executed by a representative. In your regal character and office. And I do wish your honours may increase, So shall I live to speak my father's words ;- The unstained sword that you have us'd to bear; My voice shall sound as you do prompt mine ear; To your well-practis'd, wise directions. * Gravely. Our coronation done, we will accite*, As I before remember'd, all our state : No prince, nor peer, shall have just cause to say,- [Exeunt. SCENE III. Glostershire. The garden of Shallow's house. Enter Falstaff, Shallow, Silence, Bardolph, the Page, and Davy. Shal. Nay, you shall see mine orchard: where, in an arbour, we will eat a last year's pippin of my own graffing, with a dish of caraways, and so forth; -come, cousin Silence;-and then to bed. Fal. 'Fore God, you have here a goodly dwelling, and a rich. Shal. Barren, barren, barren; beggars all, beggars all, sir John:-marry, good air.-Spread, Davy; spread, Davy; well said, Davy. Fal. This Davy serves you for good uses; he is your serving-man, and your husbandman. Shal. A good varlet, a good varlet, a very good varlet, sir John.-By the mass, I have drunk too much sack at supper:-A good varlet. Now sit down, now sit down :-come, cousin. Sil. Ah, sirrah! quoth-a,-we shall Do nothing but eat, and make good cheer, [Singing. And praise heaven for the merry year; • Summon. When flesh is cheap and females dear, And ever among so merrily. Fal. There's a merry heart! -Good master Silence, I'll give you a health for that anon. Shal. Give master Bardolph some wine, Davy. Davy. Sweet sir, sit; [Seating Bardolph and the Page at another table.] I'll be with you anon:most sweet sir, sit. -Master page, good master page, sit: proface! What you want in meat, we'll have in drink. But you must bear; The heart's all. [Exit. Shal. Be merry, master Bardolph;-and my little soldier there, be merry. Sil. Be merry, be merry, my wife's as all; [Singing. For women are shrews, both short and tall: 'Tis merry in hall, when beards wag all, And welcome merry shrove-tide. Be merry, be merry, &c. Fal. I did not think, master Silence had been a man of this mettle. Sil. Who, I? I have been merry twice and once, ere now. Re-enter Davy. Davy. There is a dish of leather-coats for you, Shal. Davy, [Setting them before Bardolph. Davy. Your worship?-I'll be with you straight. [To Bard. A cup of wine, sir? * Italian, much good may it do you. Apples commonly called russetines. |