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Editors: Karen Sawyer Marsalek, Mathew Martin
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The Famous Victories of Henry the Fifth (Quarto, 1598)

The famous victories
Drum. Oh the braue, the braue apparel that we shall
Haue anon, but come, and you shall see what me wil tro
At the kings Drummer and Fife,
1210Ha, me ha no good lucke, tro you.
3. Sol. Faith me wil tro at y^e Earle of Northumberland
And my Lord a Willowby, with his great horse,
Snorting, farting, oh braue horse.
1. Sol. Ha, bur Lady you ha reasonable good lucke,
1215Now I wil tro at the king himselfe,
Ha, me haue no good lucke.
Enters a Captaine.
Cap. How now what make you here,
So farre from the Campe?
12202. Sol. Shal me tel our captain what we haue done here?
Drum. Awee, awee.
Exeunt Drum, and one Souldier.
2. Sol. I wil tel you what whe haue doune,
We haue bene troing our shance on the Dice,
1225But none can win the king.
Cap. I thinke so, why he is left behind for me,
And I haue set three or foure chaire-makers a worke,
To make a new disguised chaire to set that womanly
King of England in, that all the people may laugh
1230And scoffe at him.
2. Soul. Oh braue Captaine.
Cap. I am glad, and yet with a kinde of pitie
To see the poore king:
Why who euer saw a more flourishing armie in France
1235In one day, then here is? Are not here all the Peeres of
France? Are not here the Normans with their firie hand=
Gunnes,and flaunching Curtleaxes?
Are not here the Barbarians with their bard horses,
And lanching speares?
1240Are not here Pickardes with their Crosbowes & piercing
Dartes.
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