3065France. I haue but with a curselarie eye

3066O're-glanc't the Articles: Pleaseth your Grace

3067To appoint some of your Councell presently

3068To sit with vs once more, with better heed

3069To re-suruey them; we will suddenly

3070Passe our accept and peremptorie Answer.

3071England. Brother we shall. Goe Vnckle Exeter,

3072And Brother Clarence, and you Brother Gloucester,

3073Warwick, and Huntington, goe with the King,

3074And take with you free power, to ratifie,

3075Augment, or alter, as your Wisdomes best

3076Shall see aduantageable for our Dignitie,

3077Any thing in or out of our Demands,

3078And wee'le consigne thereto. Will you, faire Sister,

3079Goe with the Princes, or stay here with vs?

3080Quee. Our gracious Brother, I will goe with them:

3081Happily a Womans Voyce may doe some good,

3082When Articles too nicely vrg'd, be stood on.

3083England. Yet leaue our Cousin Katherine here with vs,

3084She is our capitall Demand, compris'd

3085Within the fore-ranke of our Articles.

3086Quee. She hath good leaue. Exeunt omnes.

3088King. Faire Katherine, and most faire,

3089Will you vouchsafe to teach a Souldier tearmes,

3090Such as will enter at a Ladyes eare,

3091And pleade his Loue-suit to her gentle heart.

3092Kath. Your Maiestie shall mock at me, I cannot speake

3093your England.

3094King. O faire Katherine, if you will loue me soundly

3095with your French heart, I will be glad to heare you con-

3096fesse it brokenly with your English Tongue. Doe you

3097like me, Kate?

3098Kath. Pardonne moy, I cannot tell wat is like me.

3099King. An Angell is like you Kate, and you are like an

3100Angell.

3101Kath. Que dit il que Ie suis semblable a les Anges?

3102Lady. Ouy verayment (sauf vostre Grace) ainsi dit il.

3103King. I said so, deare Katherine, and I must not blush

3104to affirme it.

3105Kath. O bon Dieu, les langues des hommes sont plein de

3106tromperies.

3107King. What sayes she, faire one? that the tongues of

3108men are full of deceits?

3109Lady. Ouy, dat de tongeus of de mans is be full of de-

3110ceits: dat is de Princesse.

3111King. The Princesse is the better English-woman:

3112yfaith Kate, my wooing is fit for thy vnderstanding, I am

3113glad thou canst speake no better English, for if thou

3114could'st, thou would'st finde me such a plaine King, that

3115thou wouldst thinke, I had sold my Farme to buy my

3116Crowne. I know no wayes to mince it in loue, but di-

3117rectly to say, I loue you; then if you vrge me farther,

3118then to say, Doe you in faith? I weare out my suite: Giue

3119me your answer, yfaith doe, and so clap hands, and a bar-

3120gaine: how say you, Lady?

3121Kath. Sauf vostre honeur, me vnderstand well.

3122King. Marry, if you would put me to Verses, or to

3123Dance for your sake, Kate, why you vndid me: for the one

3124I haue neither words nor measure; and for the other, I

3125haue no strength in measure, yet a reasonable measure in

3126strength. If I could winne a Lady at Leape-frogge, or by

3127vawting into my Saddle, with my Armour on my backe;

3128vnder the correction of bragging be it spoken. I should

3129quickly leape into a Wife: Or if I might buffet for my

3130Loue, or bound my Horse for her fauours, I could lay on

3131like a Butcher, and sit like a Iack an Apes, neuer off. But

3132before God Kate, I cannot looke greenely, nor gaspe out

3133my eloquence, nor I haue no cunning in protestation;

3134onely downe-right Oathes, which I neuer vse till vrg'd,

3135nor neuer breake for vrging. If thou canst loue a fellow

3136of this temper, Kate, whose face is not worth Sunne-bur-

3137ning? that neuer lookes in his Glasse, for loue of any

3138thing he sees there? let thine Eye be thy Cooke. I speake

3139to thee plaine Souldier: If thou canst loue me for this,

3140take me? if not? to say to thee that I shall dye, is true; but

3141for thy loue, by the L. No: yet I loue thee too. And

3142while thou liu'st, deare Kate, take a fellow of plaine and

3143vncoyned Constancie, for he perforce must do thee right,

3144because he hath not the gift to wooe in other places: for

3145these fellowes of infinit tongue, that can ryme themselues

3146into Ladyes fauours, they doe alwayes reason themselues

3147out againe. What? a speaker is but a prater, a Ryme is

3148but a Ballad; a good Legge will fall, a strait Backe will

3149stoope, a blacke Beard will turne white, a curl'd Pate will

3150grow bald, a faire Face will wither, a full Eye will wax

3151hollow: but a good Heart, Kate, is the Sunne and the

3152Moone, or rather the Sunne, and not the Moone; for it

3153shines bright, and neuer changes, but keepes his course

3154truly. If thou would haue such a one, take me? and

3155take me; take a Souldier: take a Souldier; take a King.

3156And what say'st thou then to my Loue? speake my faire,

3157and fairely, I pray thee.

3158Kath. Is it possible dat I sould loue de ennemie of

3159Fraunce?

3160King. No, it is not possible you should loue the Ene-

3161mie of France, Kate; but in louing me, you should loue

3162the Friend of France: for I loue France so well, that I

3163will not part with a Village of it; I will haue it all mine:

3164and Kate, when France is mine, and I am yours; then yours

3165is France, and you are mine.

3166Kath. I cannot tell wat is dat.

3167King. No, Kate? I will tell thee in French, which I am

3168sure will hang vpon my tongue, like a new-married Wife

3169about her Husbands Necke, hardly to be shooke off; Ie

3170quand sur le possession de Fraunce, & quand vous aues le pos-

3171session de moy. (Let mee see, what then? Saint Dennis bee

3172my speede) Donc vostre est Fraunce, & vous estes mienne.

3173It is as easie for me, Kate, to conquer the Kingdome, as to

3174speake so much more French: I shall neuer moue thee in

3175French, vnlesse it be to laugh at me.

3176Kath. Sauf vostre honeur, le Francois ques vous parleis, il

3177& melieus que l'Anglois le quel Ie parle.

3178King. No faith is't not, Kate: but thy speaking of

3179my Tongue, and I thine, most truely falsely, must

3180needes be graunted to be much at one. But Kate, doo'st

3181thou vnderstand thus much English? Canst thou loue

3182mee?

3183Kath. I cannot tell.

3184King. Can any of your Neighbours tell, Kate? Ile

3185aske them. Come, I know thou louest me: and at night,

3186when you come into your Closet, you'le question this

3187Gentlewoman about me; and I know, Kate, you will to

3188her disprayse those parts in me, that you loue with your

3189heart: but good Kate, mocke me mercifully, the rather

3190gentle Princesse, because I loue thee cruelly. If euer thou

3191beest mine, Kate, as I haue a sauing Faith within me tells

3192me thou shalt; I get thee with skambling, and thou

3193must therefore needes proue a good Souldier-breeder:

3194Shall not thou and I, betweene Saint Dennis and Saint

3195George, compound a Boy, halfe French halfe English,

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