875leeches my Boyes, to sucke, to sucke, the very blood to

876sucke.

877Boy. And that's but vnwholesome food, they say.

878Pist. Touch her soft mouth and march.

879Bard. Farwell Hostesse.

880Nim. I cannot kisse, that is the humor of it: but

881adieu.

882Pist. Let Huswiferie appeare: keepe close, I thee

883command.

884Hostesse. Farwell: adieu. Exeunt

888King. Thus comes the English with full power vpon vs,

889And more then carefully it vs concernes,

890To answer Royally in our defences.

891Therefore the Dukes of Berry and of Britaine,

892Of Brabant and of Orleance, shall make forth,

893And you Prince Dolphin, with all swift dispatch

894To lyne and new repayre our Townes of Warre

895With men of courage, and with meanes defendant:

896For England his approaches makes as fierce,

897As Waters to the sucking of a Gulfe.

898It fits vs then to be as prouident,

899As feare may teach vs, out of late examples

900Left by the fatall and neglected English,

901Vpon our fields.

902Dolphin. My most redoubted Father,

903It is most meet we arme vs 'gainst the Foe:

904For Peace it selfe should not so dull a Kingdome,

905(Though War nor no knowne Quarrel were in question)

906But that Defences, Musters, Preparations,

907Should be maintain'd, assembled, and collected,

908As were a Warre in expectation.

909Therefore I say, 'tis meet we all goe forth,

910To view the sick and feeble parts of France:

911And let vs doe it with no shew of feare,

912No, with no more, then if we heard that England

913Were busied with a Whitson Morris-dance:

914For, my good Liege, shee is so idly King'd,

915Her Scepter so phantastically borne,

916By a vaine giddie shallow humorous Youth,

917That feare attends her not.

918Const. O peace, Prince Dolphin,

919You are too much mistaken in this King:

920Question your Grace the late Embassadors,

921With what great State he heard their Embassie,

922How well supply'd with Noble Councellors,

923How modest in exception; and withall,

924How terrible in constant resolution:

925And you shall find, his Vanities fore-spent,

926Were but the out-side of the Roman Brutus,

927Couering Discretion with a Coat of Folly;

928As Gardeners doe with Ordure hide those Roots

929That shall first spring, and be most delicate.

930Dolphin. Well, 'tis not so, my Lord High Constable.

931But though we thinke it so, it is no matter:

932In cases of defence, 'tis best to weigh

933The Enemie more mightie then he seemes,

934So the proportions of defence are fill'd:

935Which of a weake and niggardly proiection,

936Doth like a Miser spoyle his Coat, with scanting

937A little Cloth.

938King. Thinke we King Harry strong:

939And Princes, looke you strongly arme to meet him.

940The Kindred of him hath beene flesht vpon vs:

941And he is bred out of that bloodie straine,

942That haunted vs in our familiar Pathes:

943Witnesse our too much memorable shame,

944When Cressy Battell fatally was strucke,

945And all our Princes captiu'd, by the hand

946Of that black Name, Edward, black Prince of Wales:

947Whiles that his Mountaine Sire, on Mountaine standing

948Vp in the Ayre, crown'd with the Golden Sunne,

949Saw his Heroicall Seed, and smil'd to see him

950Mangle the Worke of Nature, and deface

951The Patternes, that by God and by French Fathers

952Had twentie yeeres been made. This is a Stem

953Of that Victorious Stock: and let vs feare

954The Natiue mightinesse and fate of him.

956Mess. Embassadors from Harry King of England,

957Doe craue admittance to your Maiestie.

958King. Weele giue them present audience.

959Goe, and bring them.

960You see this Chase is hotly followed, friends.

961Dolphin. Turne head, and stop pursuit: for coward Dogs

962Most spend their mouths, whē what they seem to threaten

963Runs farre before them. Good my Soueraigne

964Take vp the English short, and let them know

965Of what a Monarchie you are the Head:

966Selfe-loue, my Liege, is not so vile a sinne,

967As selfe-neglecting.

969King. From our Brother of England?

970Exe. From him, and thus he greets your Maiestie:

971He wills you in the Name of God Almightie,

972That you deuest your selfe, and lay apart

973The borrowed Glories, that by gift of Heauen,

974By Law of Nature, and of Nations, longs

975To him and to his Heires, namely the Crowne,

976And all wide-stretched Honors, that pertaine

977By Custome, and the Ordinance of Times,

978Vnto the Crowne of France: that you may know

979'Tis no sinister, nor no awk-ward Clayme,

980Pickt from the worme-holes of long-vanisht dayes,

981Nor from the dust of old Obliuion rakt,

982He sends you this most memorable Lyne,

983In euery Branch truly demonstratiue;

984Willing you ouer-looke this Pedigree:

985And when you find him euenly deriu'd

986From his most fam'd, of famous Ancestors,

987Edward the third; he bids you then resigne

988Your Crowne and Kingdome, indirectly held

989From him, the Natiue and true Challenger.

990King. Or else what followes?

991Exe. Bloody constraint: for if you hide the Crowne

992Euen in your hearts, there will he rake for it.

993Therefore in fierce Tempest is he comming,

994In Thunder and in Earth-quake, like a Ioue:

995That if requiring faile, he will compell.

996And bids you, in the Bowels of the Lord,

997Deliuer vp the Crowne, and to take mercie

998On the poore Soules, for whom this hungry Warre

999Opens his vastie Iawes: and on your head

1000Turning the Widdowes Teares, the Orphans Cryes,

1001The dead-mens Blood, the priuy Maidens Groanes,

1002For Husbands, Fathers, and betrothed Louers,

1003That shall be swallowed in this Controuersie.

1004This is his Clayme, his Threatning, and my Message:

1005Vnlesse the Dolphin be in presence here;

1006To whom expressely I bring greeting to.