King Henry V Arranged for Representation at the Princess's Theatre

_Flu._ My lord of Gloster, here is (praised be Heaven for it!) a most contagious treason come to light, look you, as you shall desire in a summer's day. Here is his majesty.

_Fr. King._ (C.) Thus come the English with full power upon us; And more than carefully it us concerns[16] To answer royally in our defences. Therefore the Dukes of Berry and of...

_Trumpets sound. Enter, at one door, U.E.L.H., KING HENRY,(A) BEDFORD, GLOSTER, EXETER, WARWICK, WESTMORELAND, and other Lords; at another, U.E.R.H., the FRENCH KING, QUEEN ISAB...

_Flu._ The Duke of Exeter is as magnanimous as Agamemnon; and a man that I love and honour with my soul, and my heart, and my duty, and my life, and my livings, and my uttermost...

_Pist._ (C.) No; for my manly heart doth yearn.-- Bardolph, be blithe;--Nym, rouse thy vaunting veins; Boy, bristle thy courage up; for Falstaff he is dead, And we must yearn th...

Good morrow, brother Bedford.--Gracious Heaven! There is some soul of goodness in things evil, Would men observingly distil it out; For our bad neighbour makes us early stirrers...

[Footnote *: The throne is powdered with the letter S. This decoration made its appearance in the reign of Henry IV., and has been differently accounted for. The late Sir Samuel...

_Exe._ Nay, but the man that was his bedfellow,(A) Whom he hath cloy'd and grac'd with princely favours,-- That he should, for a foreign purse, so sell His sovereign's life to d...

_K. Hen._ (C.) I was not angry since I came to France, Until this instant.--Take a trumpet, herald; Ride thou unto the horsemen on yon hill:(M) If they will fight with us, bid t...

_K. Hen._ (C.) What's he that wishes so? My cousin Westmoreland?--No, my fair cousin: If we are mark'd to die, we are enough To do our country loss; and if to live, The fewer me...

_Flu._ There is occasions and causes why and wherefore in all things: I will tell you, as my friend, Captain Gower: the rascally, scald, beggarly, lowsy, pragging knave, Pistol,...

_Con._ To horse, you gallant princes! straight to horse! Do but behold yon poor and starved band. There is not work enough for all our hands; Scarce blood enough in all their si...

_Dau._ (R.) By faith and honour, Our madams mock at us; They bid us--to the English dancing-schools, And teach lavoltas high[1] and swift corantos;[2] Saying our grace is only i...