{"product_id":"henry-v-isbn-9780553212952","title":"Henry V","description":"A triumphantly patriotic play that also casts a critical eye at war and warriors, this great epic drama depicts a charismatic ruler in a time of national struggle. The young King Henry’s victory over the French despite overwhelming odds creates a spectacle of action, color, and thundering battles. Whether the warrior-king is urging his men “Once more unto the breach, dear friends,” or wooing Katharine of France, Henry is magnificently adapted to the role he must play in England’s greatness. \u003cb\u003eHenry V\u003c\/b\u003e represents the culmination of Shakespeare’s art as a writer of historical drama.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEach Edition Includes:\u003cbr\u003e• Comprehensive explanatory notes \u003cbr\u003e• Vivid introductions and the most up-to-date scholarship \u003cbr\u003e• Clear, modernized spelling and punctuation, enabling contemporary readers to understand the Elizabethan English\u003cbr\u003e• Completely updated, detailed bibliographies and performance histories \u003cbr\u003e• An interpretive essay on film adaptations of the play, along with an extensive filmography\u003cb\u003eWilliam Shakespeare\u003c\/b\u003e (1564–1616) was a poet, playwright, and actor who is widely regarded as one of the most influential writers in the history of the English language. Often referred to as the Bard of Avon, Shakespeare's vast body of work includes comedic, tragic, and historical plays; poems; and 154 sonnets. His dramatic works have been translated into every major language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Bevington\u003c\/b\u003e is one of the world's most well-respected Shakespearean scholars. He has served as an editor of several widely acclaimed anthologies, such as \u003ci\u003eEnglish Renaissance Drama: A Norton Anthology, Bantam Shakespeare, Medieval Drama, and The Complete Works of Shakespeare. \u003c\/i\u003eSince 1967 Bevington has taught at the University of Chicago, specializing in Shakespeare and his contemporaries, as well as Renaissance, medieval, and Western drama. Bevington serves as the chair of theater and performance studies and is a Phyllis Fay Horton Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in the humanities and in English language and literature.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Scott Kastan\u003c\/b\u003e is a noted scholar of early modern English literature and culture. He is the George M. Bodman Professor of English at Yale University, where he specializes in Shakespeare, Milton, and literary history. Prior to joining the Yale faculty in 2008, Kastan taught at Columbia University, Dartmouth College, University College London, Eötvös Loránd University, the University of Copenhagen, and the American University in Cairo, Egypt. Kastan has served as an editor on many Elizabethan, Renaissance, and Shakespearean anthologies. His own scholarly publications include \u003ci\u003eShakespeare and the Shapes of Time, Shakespeare After Theory\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eShakespeare and the Book\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eA Will to Believe: Shakespeare and Religion.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e[Dramatis Personae\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003echorus \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eking henry the fifth\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ehumphrey, duke of gloucester, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ejohn, duke of bedford, the King's brothers\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eduke of clarence,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eduke of exeter, the King's uncle\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eduke of york, the King's cousin\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eearl of salisbury\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eearl of westmorland\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eearl of warwick\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eearl of huntingdon\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003earchbishop of canterbury\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ebishop of ely\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003erichard, earl of cambridge,     conspirators\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ehenry, lord scroop of masham,  against the King\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003esir thomas grey,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003esir thomas erpingham, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecaptain gower, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecaptain fluellen, officers in the King's army\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecaptain macmorris, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecaptain jamy,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ejohn bates, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ealexander court, soldiers in the King's army\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003emichael williams,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn English herald \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003epistol, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003enym, Falstaff's former tavern-mates\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ebardolph, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eboy, formerly Falstaff's page\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ehostess, formerly Mistress Quickly, now married to Pistol\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eduke of burgundy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efrench king, Charles the Sixth\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003equeen isabel of France\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003edauphin, Lewis\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ekatharine, Princess of France\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ealice, a lady attending Katharine\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eduke of orleans\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eduke of berri\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eduke of bourbon\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eduke of brittany\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003econstable of france\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003elord rambures\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003elord grandpre\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003egovernor of harfleur\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003emonsieur le fer, a French soldier\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003emontjoy, the French herald\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrench ambassadors to England\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLords, Ladies, Officers, Soldiers, Citizens, Messengers, and Attendants\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003escene: England, afterwards France]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePrologue\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1 Muse of fire (Of the four elements--earth, air, fire, and water--fire is the most sublime and mounting.)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2 invention poetic imagination.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4 swelling splendid, magnificent\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5 like himself i.e., presented in a fashion worthy of so great a king\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6 port bearing\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e8 gentles gentlemen and gentlewomen\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e9 flat unraised uninspired, lifeless.   spirits i.e., actors and playwright.   hath (Elizabethan usage often pairs a plural subject with a singular verb.)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e10 scaffold stage\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e11 cockpit (Elizabethan theaters were shaped rather like arenas for animal fighting.)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e12 vasty vast, spacious\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e13 O (Refers to a round theater such as the Globe; the play may have been performed at the Curtain Theater.)   casques helmets\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e15 crooked figure cipher or zero (which, added to a number, will multiply its value tenfold)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e16 Attest stand for\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e17 account (1) sum total (continuing the metaphor of crooked figure) (2) story\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e18 imaginary forces forces of imagination\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e21 abutting touching, bordering.   fronts (1) frontiers, i.e., the cliffs of Dover and Calais (2) foreheads\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e22 perilous . . . ocean i.e., English Channel\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e25 puissance armed might, army.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e28 deck dress, adorn\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePrologue  A  Enter [Chorus as] Prologue.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003echorus\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOh, for a Muse of fire, that would ascend 1\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe brightest heaven of invention! 2\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA kingdom for a stage, princes to act,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd monarchs to behold the swelling scene! 4\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen should the warlike Harry, like himself, 5\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAssume the port of Mars; and at his heels, 6\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLeashed in like hounds, should famine, sword, and\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  fire\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCrouch for employment. But pardon, gentles all, 8\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe flat unraised spirits that hath dared 9\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn this unworthy scaffold to bring forth 10\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo great an object. Can this cockpit hold 11\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe vasty fields of France? Or may we cram 12\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWithin this wooden O the very casques 13\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat did affright the air at Agincourt?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOh, pardon! Since a crooked figure may 15\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAttest in little place a million; 16\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd let us, ciphers to this great account, 17\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn your imaginary forces work. 18\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSuppose within the girdle of these walls\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAre now confined two mighty monarchies,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhose high upreared and abutting fronts 21\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe perilous narrow ocean parts asunder. 22\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePiece out our imperfections with your thoughts:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInto a thousand parts divide one man,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd make imaginary puissance. 25\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThink, when we talk of horses, that you see them\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePrinting their proud hoofs i'th' receiving earth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor 'tis your thoughts that now must deck our kings, 28\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e31 the which supply which service\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1.1 Location: England. The royal court.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1 self same\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3 like likely (to have passed)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4 scambling unsettled\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5 question consideration.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e9 temporal used for secular purposes\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e14 esquires members of the gentry, ranking just below knights\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e15 lazars lepers\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e16 corporal physical\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCarry them here and there, jumping o'er times,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTurning th'accomplishment of many years\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInto an hourglass--for the which supply, 31\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAdmit me Chorus to this history,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWho, Prologue-like, your humble patience pray\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGently to hear, kindly to judge, our play. Exit.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1.1  *  Enter the two bishops, [the Archbishop] of Canterbury and [the Bishop of] Ely.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecanterbury\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMy lord, I'll tell you. That self bill is urged 1\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhich in th'eleventh year of the last king's reign\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWas like, and had indeed against us passed, 3\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut that the scambling and unquiet time 4\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDid push it out of farther question. 5\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eely\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut how, my lord, shall we resist it now?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecanterbury\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt must be thought on. If it pass against us,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe lose the better half of our possession.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor all the temporal lands which men devout 9\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy testament have given to the Church\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWould they strip from us, being valued thus:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs much as would maintain, to the King's honor,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFull fifteen earls and fifteen hundred knights,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSix thousand and two hundred good esquires, 14\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd, to relief of lazars and weak age 15\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOf indigent faint souls past corporal toil, 16\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA hundred almshouses right well supplied;\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd to the coffers of the King beside\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA thousand pounds by th' year. Thus runs the bill.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eely  This would drink deep.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecanterbury  'Twould drink the cup and all.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eely  But what prevention?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e27 mortified killed\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e29 Consideration meditation, reflection\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e30 offending Adam original sin\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e35 heady currance headlong current\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e36 Hydra-headed i.e., many-headed. (Alludes to the Lernaean Hydra, a monster of many heads overcome by Hercules.)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e37 his seat its throne\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e44 List Listen to\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e45 rendered . . . music i.e., eloquently narrated.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e46 cause of policy matter of statecraft\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e47 Gordian knot i.e., great difficulty resolved forcefully. (It was foretold that whoever should untie the Gordian knot would rule Asia. Alexander solved the problem by cutting the knot.)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e48 Familiar as offhandedly or routinely.   that so that\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e49 chartered libertine free spirit, licensed to roam at will\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e50-1 the mute . . . sentences i.e., wonder makes men silent, eagerly listening to hear more of his sweetly profitable wise sayings\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecanterbury\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe King is full of grace and fair regard.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eely\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd a true lover of the holy Church.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecanterbury\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe courses of his youth promised it not.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe breath no sooner left his father's body\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut that his wildness, mortified in him, 27\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSeemed to die too; yea, at that very moment\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConsideration like an angel came 29\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd whipped th'offending Adam out of him, 30\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLeaving his body as a paradise\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eT'envelop and contain celestial spirits.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNever was such a sudden scholar made;\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNever came reformation in a flood\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith such a heady currance, scouring faults; 35\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNor never Hydra-headed willfulness 36\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo soon did lose his seat, and all at once, 37\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs in this king.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eely  We are blessed in the change.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecanterbury\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHear him but reason in divinity,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd, all-admiring, with an inward wish\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYou would desire the King were made a prelate.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHear him debate of commonwealth affairs,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYou would say it hath been all in all his study.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eList his discourse of war, and you shall hear 44\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA fearful battle rendered you in music. 45\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTurn him to any cause of policy, 46\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Gordian knot of it he will unloose, 47\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFamiliar as his garter, that, when he speaks, 48\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe air, a chartered libertine, is still, 49\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd the mute wonder lurketh in men's ears 50\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo steal his sweet and honeyed sentences; 51\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e52-3 So . . . theoric so that experience in practical life must have been the teacher by which he acquired his theoretical conception.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e55 addiction inclination\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e56 companies companions.   rude coarse\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e57 riots reveling.   sports amusements\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e60 open . . . popularity places of public resort and low company.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e67 crescive . . . faculty naturally inclined to grow.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e68 miracles are ceased (Protestants generally believed that no miracles occurred after the revelation of Christ.)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e69 means i.e., natural causes\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e73 indifferent impartial\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e75 exhibiters those who introduce bills in Parliament\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e77 Upon on behalf of.   convocation formal assembly of the clergy\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e78 in hand under consideration\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e79 opened expounded.   at large in full\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e82 withal with.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo that the art and practic part of life 52\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMust be the mistress to this theoric. 53\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhich is a wonder how His Grace should glean it,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSince his addiction was to courses vain, 55\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHis companies unlettered, rude, and shallow, 56\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHis hours filled up with riots, banquets, sports, 57\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd never noted in him any study,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAny retirement, any sequestration\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom open haunts and popularity. 60\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eely\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe strawberry grows underneath the nettle,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd wholesome berries thrive and ripen best\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNeighbored by fruit of baser quality;\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd so the Prince obscured his contemplation\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUnder the veil of wildness, which, no doubt,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGrew like the summer grass, fastest by night,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUnseen, yet crescive in his faculty. 67\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecanterbury\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt must be so, for miracles are ceased. 68\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd therefore we must needs admit the means 69\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow things are perfected.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eely   But, my good lord,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow now for mitigation of this bill\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUrged by the Commons? Doth His Majesty\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIncline to it, or no?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecanterbury      He seems indifferent, 73\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOr rather swaying more upon our part\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThan cherishing th'exhibiters against us; 75\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor I have made an offer to His Majesty,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUpon our spiritual convocation 77\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd in regard of causes now in hand, 78\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhich I have opened to His Grace at large, 79\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs touching France, to give a greater sum\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThan ever at one time the clergy yet\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDid to his predecessors part withal. 82\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e86 fain gladly\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e87 severals details.   unhidden passages clear lines of descent\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e89 seat throne\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e90 Edward Edward III\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e96 embassy message\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1.2 Location: England. The royal court.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eely\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow did this offer seem received, my lord?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecanterbury\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith good acceptance of His Majesty,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSave that there was not time enough to hear,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs I perceived His Grace would fain have done, 86\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe severals and unhidden passages 87\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOf his true titles to some certain dukedoms,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd generally to the crown and seat of France, 89\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDerived from Edward, his great-grandfather. 90\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eely\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat was th'impediment that broke this off?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecanterbury\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe French ambassador upon that instant\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCraved audience; and the hour I think is come\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo give him hearing. Is it four o'clock?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eely   It is.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecanterbury\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen go we in to know his embassy, 96\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhich I could with a ready guess declare\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBefore the Frenchman speak a word of it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eely\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI'll wait upon you, and I long to hear it. Exeunt.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e[1.2]  * Enter the King, Humphrey [Duke of Gloucester], Bedford, Clarence, Warwick, Westmorland, and Exeter [with attendants].\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eking\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhere is my gracious lord of Canterbury?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eexeter\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNot here in presence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKing     Send for him, good uncle.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4 cousin (A form of address customarily used by royalty in addressing their nobles. In this case, Westmorland is in fact related to the King by marriage.)   be resolved come to a decision\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6 task engage, occupy\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e8 become adorn, grace\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e11 Salic (See explanation at lines 39-45.)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e12 Or either\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e15 nicely charge subtly and foolishly burden\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e16 opening titles miscreate expounding spurious claims\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e17 Suits . . . colors i.e., does not naturally harmonize\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e19 approbation support, proof\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e20 your reverence (1) an honorific title for an archbishop, Your Reverence (2) your sacred authority\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e21 impawn put under an obligation\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e26 woe grievance.   sore severe, grievous\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e27 wrongs wrongdoings\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e28 in brief mortality i.e., among mortal, short-lived men.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e29 conjuration solemn adjuration\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewestmorland\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShall we call in th'ambassador, my liege?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eking\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNot yet, my cousin. We would be resolved, 4\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBefore we hear him, of some things of weight\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat task our thoughts, concerning us and France. 6\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEnter two bishops, [the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Bishop of Ely].\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecanterbury\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGod and his angels guard your sacred throne,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd make you long become it!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eking    Sure we thank you. 8\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMy learned lord, we pray you to proceed,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd justly and religiously unfold\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhy the law Salic that they have in France 11\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOr should or should not bar us in our claim. 12\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd God forbid, my dear and faithful lord,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat you should fashion, wrest, or bow your reading,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOr nicely charge your understanding soul 15\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith opening titles miscreate, whose right 16\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSuits not in native colors with the truth; 17\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor God doth know how many now in health\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShall drop their blood in approbation 19\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOf what your reverence shall incite us to. 20\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTherefore take heed how you impawn our person, 21\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow you awake our sleeping sword of war.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe charge you in the name of God take heed;\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor never two such kingdoms did contend\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWithout much fall of blood, whose guiltless drops\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAre every one a woe, a sore complaint 26\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Gainst him whose wrongs gives edge unto the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  swords 27\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat makes such waste in brief mortality. 28\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUnder this conjuration speak, my lord; 29\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor we will hear, note, and believe in heart\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e37 Pharamond legendary Frankish king\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e40 gloze gloss\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e45 floods rivers\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e46 Charles the Great Charlemagne\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e49 dishonest unchaste\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e58 defunction death\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e59 Idly foolishly\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e65 which who. (As also in line 67.)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat what you speak is in your conscience washed\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs pure as sin with baptism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecanterbury\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen hear me, gracious sovereign, and you peers,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat owe yourselves, your lives, and services\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo this imperial throne. There is no bar\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo make against Your Highness' claim to France\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut this, which they produce from Pharamond: 37\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"In terram Salicam mulieres ne succedant,\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"No woman shall succeed in Salic land.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhich Salic land the French unjustly gloze 40\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo be the realm of France, and Pharamond\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe founder of this law and female bar.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYet their own authors faithfully affirm\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat the land Salic is in Germany,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBetween the floods of Saale and of Elbe; 45\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhere, Charles the Great having subdued the Saxons, 46\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere left behind and settled certain French,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWho, holding in disdain the German women\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor some dishonest manners of their life, 49\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEstablished then this law: to wit, no female\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShould be inheritrix in Salic land--\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhich Salic, as I said, twixt Elbe and Saale,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIs at this day in Germany called Meissen.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen doth it well appear the Salic law\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWas not devised for the realm of France;\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNor did the French possess the Salic land\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUntil four hundred one-and-twenty years\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter defunction of King Pharamond, 58\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIdly supposed the founder of this law, 59\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWho died within the year of our redemption\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFour hundred twenty-six; and Charles the Great\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSubdued the Saxons, and did seat the French\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeyond the River Saale, in the year\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEight hundred five. Besides, their writers say,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKing Pepin, which deposed Childeric, 65\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e66 heir general heir through male or female line\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e72 find provide\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e74 Conveyed himself passed himself off\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e75 Charlemagne (Holinshed's and Hall's error, followed by Shakespeare, for Charles the Bald or Charles II, emperor of the West; Luitgard [Shakespeare's Lingard] became Charlemagne's wife after the death of Fastrada in 794.)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bantam Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301339287781,"sku":"NP9780553212952","price":4.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780553212952.jpg?v=1767728939","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/henry-v-isbn-9780553212952","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}