3326Exet. Onely he hath not yet subscribed this:

3327Where your Maiestie demands, That the King of France

3328hauing any occasion to write for matter of Graunt, shall

3329name your Highnesse in this forme, and with this additi-

3330on, in French: Nostre trescher filz Henry Roy d'Angleterre

3331Heretere de Fraunce: and thus in Latine; Praeclarissimus

3332Filius noster Henricus Rex Angliae & Heres Franciae.

3333France. Nor this I haue not Brother so deny'd,

3334But your request shall make me let it passe.

3335England. I pray you then, in loue and deare allyance,

3336Let that one Article ranke with the rest,

3337And thereupon giue me your Daughter.

3338France. Take her faire Sonne, and from her blood rayse vp

3339Issue to me, that the contending Kingdomes

3340Of France and England, whose very shoares looke pale,

3341With enuy of each others happinesse,

3342May cease their hatred; and this deare Coniunction

3343Plant Neighbour-hood and Christian-like accord

3344In their sweet Bosomes: that neuer Warre aduance

3345His bleeding Sword 'twixt England and faire France.

3346Lords. Amen.

3347King. Now welcome Kate: and beare me witnesse all,

3348That here I kisse her as my Soueraigne Queene.

3350Quee. God, the best maker of all Marriages,

3351Combine your hearts in one, your Realmes in one:

3352As Man and Wife being two, are one in loue,

3353So be there 'twixt your Kingdomes such a Spousall,

3354That neuer may ill Office, or fell Iealousie,

3355Which troubles oft the Bed of blessed Marriage,

3356Thrust in betweene the Pation of these Kingdomes,

3357To make diuorce of their incorporate League:

3358That English may as French, French Englishmen,

3359Receiue each other. God speake this Amen.

3360All. Amen.

3361King. Prepare we for our Marriage: on which day,

3362My Lord of Burgundy wee'le take your Oath

3363And all the Peeres, for suretie of our Leagues.

3364Then shall I sweare to Kate, and you to me,

3365And may our Oathes well kept and prosp'rous be.

3368Thus farre with rough, and all-vnable Pen,

3369Our bending Author hath pursu'd the Story,

3370In little roome confining mightie men,

3371Mangling by starts the full course of their glory.

3372Small time: but in that small, most greatly liued

3373This Starre of England. Fortune made his Sword;

3374By which, the Worlds best Garden he atchieued:

3375And of it left his Sonne Imperiall Lord.

3376Henry the Sixt, in Infant Bands crown'd King

3377Of France and England, did this King succeed:

3378Whose State so many had the managing,

3379That they lost France, and made his England bleed:

3380Which oft our Stage hath showne; and for their sake,

3381In your faire minds let this acceptance take.

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