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92The Life of Henry the Fift.
2934you to day a squire of low degree. I pray you fall too, if
2935you can mocke a Leeke, you can eate a Leeke.
2938or I will peate his pate foure dayes: bite I pray you, it is
2939good for your greene wound, and your ploodie Coxe-
2940combe.
2943stion too, and ambiguities.
2945eate and eate I sweare.
2947to your Leeke: there is not enough Leeke to sweare by.
2950pray you throw none away, the skinne is good for your
2952Leekes heereafter, I pray you mocke at 'em, that is all.
2953Pist. Good.
2954Flu. I, Leekes is good: hold you, there is a groat to
2955heale your pate.
2958another Leeke in my pocket, which you shall eate.
2961gels, you shall be a Woodmonger, and buy nothing of
2962me but cudgels: God bu'y you, and keepe you, & heale
2963your pate. Exit
2965Gow. Go, go, you are a counterfeit cowardly Knaue,
2966will you mocke at an ancient Tradition began vppon an
2968of predeceased valor, and dare not auouch in your deeds
2969any of your words. I haue seene you gleeking & galling
2970at this Gentleman twice or thrice. You thought, because
2976Newes haue I that my Doll is dead i'th Spittle of a mala-
2977dy of France, and there my rendeuous is quite cut off:
2978Old I do waxe, and from my wearie limbes honour is
2979Cudgeld. Well, Baud Ile turne, and something leane to
2981there Ile steale:
2984 Enter at one doore, King Henry, Exeter, Bedford, Warwicke,
2985and other Lords. At another, Queene Isabel,
2986the King, the Duke of Bourgongne, and
2987other French.
2988King. Peace to this meeting, wherefore we are met;
2989Vnto our brother France, and to our Sister
2990Health and faire time of day: Ioy and good wishes
2992And as a branch and member of this Royalty,
2993By whom this great assembly is contriu'd,
2994We do salute you Duke of Burgogne,
2995And Princes French and Peeres health to you all.
2996Fra. Right ioyous are we to behold your face,
2997Most worthy brother England, fairely met,
2998So are you Princes (English) euery one.
3000Of this good day, and of this gracious meeting,
3001As we are now glad to behold your eyes,
3002Your eyes which hitherto haue borne
3003In them against the French that met them in their bent,
3004The fatall Balls of murthering Basiliskes:
3005The venome of such Lookes we fairely hope
3006Haue lost their qualitie, and that this day
3007Shall change all griefes and quarrels into loue.
3008Eng. To cry Amen to that, thus we appeare.
3010Burg. My dutie to you both, on equall loue.
3011Great Kings of France and England: that I haue labour'd
3012With all my wits, my paines, and strong endeuors,
3014Vnto this Barre, and Royall enterview;
3017That Face to Face, and Royall Eye to Eye,
3018You haue congreeted: let it not disgrace me,
3019If I demand before this Royall view,
3020What Rub, or what Impediment there is,
3021Why that the naked, poore, and mangled Peace,
3022Deare Nourse of Arts, Plentyes, and ioyfull Births,
3023Should not in this best Garden of the World,
3024Our fertile France, put vp her louely Visage?
3025Alas, shee hath from France too long been chas'd,
3026And all her Husbandry doth lye on heapes,
3027Corrupting in it owne fertilitie.
3028Her Vine, the merry chearer of the heart,
3029Vnpruned, dyes: her Hedges euen pleach'd,
3030Like Prisoners wildly ouer-growne with hayre,
3031Put forth disorder'd Twigs: her fallow Leas,
3032The Darnell, Hemlock, and ranke Femetary,
3033Doth root vpon; while that the Culter rusts,
3036The freckled Cowslip, Burnet, and greene Clouer,
3037Wanting the Sythe, withall vncorrected, ranke;
3038Conceiues by idlenesse, and nothing teemes,
3040Loosing both beautie and vtilitie;
3041And all our Vineyards, Fallowes, Meades, and Hedges,
3044Haue lost, or doe not learne, for want of time,
3045The Sciences that should become our Countrey;
3046But grow like Sauages, as Souldiers will,
3047That nothing doe, but meditate on Blood,
3048To Swearing, and sterne Lookes, defus'd Attyre,
3049And euery thing that seemes vnnaturall.
3050Which to reduce into our former fauour,
3052That I may know the Let, why gentle Peace
3053Should not expell these inconueniences,
3054And blesse vs with her former qualities.
3055Eng. If Duke of Burgonie, you would the Peace,
3057Which you haue cited; you must buy that Peace
3058With full accord to all our iust demands,
3060You haue enschedul'd briefely in your hands.
3061Burg. The King hath heard them: to the which, as yet
3062There is no Answer made.
3064Lyes in his Answer.
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