1392To buy a slobbry and a durtie Farme

1393In that nooke-shotten Ile of Albion.

1394Const. Dieu de Battailes, where haue they this mettell?

1395Is not their Clymate foggy, raw, and dull?

1396On whom, as in despight, the Sunne lookes pale,

1397Killing their Fruit with frownes. Can sodden Water,

1398A Drench for sur-reyn'd Iades, their Barly broth,

1399Decoct their cold blood to such valiant heat?

1400And shall our quick blood, spirited with Wine,

1401Seeme frostie? O, for honor of our Land,

1402Let vs not hang like roping Isyckles

1403Vpon our Houses Thatch, whiles a more frostie People

1404Sweat drops of gallant Youth in our rich fields:

1405Poore we call them, in their Natiue Lords.

1406Dolphin. By Faith and Honor,

1407Our Madames mock at vs, and plainely say,

1408Our Mettell is bred out, and they will giue

1409Their bodyes to the Lust of English Youth,

1410To new-store France with Bastard Warriors.

1411Brit. They bid vs to the English Dancing-Schooles,

1412And teach Lauolta's high, and swift Carranto's,

1413Saying, our Grace is onely in our Heeles,

1414And that we are most loftie Run-awayes.

1415King. Where is Montioy the Herald? speed him hence,

1416Let him greet England with our sharpe defiance.

1417Vp Princes, and with spirit of Honor edged,

1418More sharper then your Swords, high to the field:

1419Charles Delabreth, High Constable of France,

1420You Dukes of Orleance, Burbon, and of Berry,

1421Alanson, Brabant, Bar, and Burgonie,

1422Iaques Chattillion, Rambures, Vandemont,

1423Beumont, Grand Pree, Roussi, and Faulconbridge,

1424Loys, Lestrale, Bouciquall, and Charaloyes,

1425High Dukes, great Princes, Barons, Lords, and Kings;

1426For your great Seats, now quit you of great shames:

1427Barre Harry England, that sweepes through our Land

1428With Penons painted in the blood of Harflew:

1429Rush on his Hoast, as doth the melted Snow

1430Vpon the Valleyes, whose low Vassall Seat,

1431The Alpes doth spit, and void his rhewme vpon.

1432Goe downe vpon him, you haue Power enough,

1433And in a Captiue Chariot, into Roan

1434Bring him our Prisoner.

1435Const. This becomes the Great.

1436Sorry am I his numbers are so few,

1437His Souldiers sick, and famisht in their March:

1438For I am sure, when he shall see our Army,

1439Hee'le drop his heart into the sinck of feare,

1440And for atchieuement, offer vs his Ransome.

1441King. Therefore Lord Constable, hast on Montioy,

1442And let him say to England, that we send,

1443To know what willing Ransome he will giue.

1444Prince Dolphin, you shall stay with vs in Roan.

1445Dolph. Not so, I doe beseech your Maiestie.

1446King. Be patient, for you shall remaine with vs.

1447Now forth Lord Constable, and Princes all,

1448And quickly bring vs word of Englands fall. Exeunt.

1451Gower. How now Captaine Fluellen, come you from

1452the Bridge?

1453Flu. I assure you, there is very excellent Seruices com-

1454mitted at the Bridge.

1455Gower. Is the Duke of Exeter safe?

1456Flu. The Duke of Exeter is as magnanimous as Aga-

1457memnon, and a man that I loue and honour with my soule,

1458and my heart, and my dutie, and my liue, and my liuing,

1459and my vttermost power. He is not, God be praysed and

1460blessed, any hurt in the World, but keepes the Bridge

1461most valiantly, with excellent discipline. There is an aun-

1462chient Lieutenant there at the Pridge, I thinke in my very

1463conscience hee is as valiant a man as Marke Anthony, and

1464hee is a man of no estimation in the World, but I did see

1465him doe as gallant seruice.

1466Gower. What doe you call him?

1467Flu. Hee is call'd aunchient Pistoll.

1468Gower. I know him not.

1470Flu. Here is the man.

1471Pist. Captaine, I thee beseech to doe me fauours: the

1472Duke of Exeter doth loue thee well.

1473Flu. I, I prayse God, and I haue merited some loue at

1474his hands.

1475Pist. Bardolph, a Souldier firme and sound of heart,

1476and of buxome valour, hath by cruell Fate, and giddie

1477Fortunes furious fickle Wheele, that Goddesse blind, that

1478stands vpon the rolling restlesse Stone.

1479Flu. By your patience, aunchient Pistoll: Fortune is

1480painted blinde, with a Muffler afore his eyes, to signifie

1481to you, that Fortune is blinde; and shee is painted also

1482with a Wheele, to signifie to you, which is the Morall of

1483it, that shee is turning and inconstant, and mutabilitie,

1484and variation: and her foot, looke you, is fixed vpon a

1485Sphericall Stone, which rowles, and rowles, and rowles:

1486in good truth, the Poet makes a most excellent descripti-

1487on of it: Fortune is an excellent Morall.

1488Pist. Fortune is Bardolphs foe, and frownes on him:

1489for he hath stolne a Pax, and hanged must a be: a damned

1490death: let Gallowes gape for Dogge, let Man goe free,

1491and let not Hempe his Wind-pipe suffocate: but Exeter

1492hath giuen the doome of death, for Pax of little price.

1493Therefore goe speake, the Duke will heare thy voyce;

1494and let not Bardolphs vitall thred bee cut with edge of

1495Penny-Cord, and vile reproach. Speake Captaine for

1496his Life, and I will thee requite.

1497Flu. Aunchient Pistoll, I doe partly vnderstand your

1498meaning.

1499Pist. Why then reioyce therefore.

1500Flu. Certainly Aunchient, it is not a thing to reioyce

1501at: for if, looke you, he were my Brother, I would desire

1502the Duke to vse his good pleasure, and put him to execu-

1503tion; for discipline ought to be vsed.

1504Pist. Dye, and be dam'd, and Figo for thy friendship.

1505Flu. It is well.

1506Pist. The Figge of Spaine. Exit.

1507Flu. Very good.

1508Gower. Why, this is an arrant counterfeit Rascall, I

1509remember him now: a Bawd, a Cut-purse.

1510Flu. Ile assure you, a vtt'red as praue words at the

1511Pridge, as you shall see in a Summers day: but it is very

1512well: what he ha's spoke to me, that is well I warrant you,

1513when time is serue.

1514Gower. Why 'tis a Gull, a Foole, a Rogue, that now and

1515then goes to the Warres, to grace himselfe at his returne

1516into London, vnder the forme of a Souldier: and such

1517fellowes are perfit in the Great Commanders Names, and

1518they will learne you by rote where Seruices were done;

1519at such and such a Sconce, at such a Breach, at such a Con-

1520uoy: who came off brauely, who was shot, who dis-

1521grac'd, what termes the Enemy stood on: and this they

1522conne perfitly in the phrase of Warre; which they tricke