Vouchsafe to those that have not read the story

5.0.22852That I may prompt them; and of such as have,

5.0.32853I humbly pray them to admit th'excuse

5.0.42854Of time, of numbers, and due course of things

5.0.52855Which cannot in their huge and proper life

5.0.62856Be here presented. Now we bear the king

5.0.72857Toward Calais; grant him there. There seen,

5.0.82858Heave him away upon your wingèd thoughts

5.0.92859Athwart the sea. Behold, the English beach

5.0.102860Pales in the flood with men, wives, and boys,

5.0.112861Whose shouts and claps outvoice the deep-mouthed sea,

5.0.122862Which, like a mighty whiffler 'fore the king,

5.0.132863Seems to prepare his way. So let him land,

5.0.142864And solemnly see him set on to London.

5.0.152865So swift a pace hath thought that even now

5.0.162866You may imagine him upon Blackheath,

5.0.172867Where that his lords desire him to have borne

5.0.182868His bruisèd helmet and his bended sword

5.0.192869Before him through the city. He forbids it,

5.0.202870Being free from vainness and self-glorious pride,

5.0.212871Giving full trophy, signal, and ostent

5.0.222872Quite from himself to God. But now behold

5.0.232873In the quick forge and working-house of thought

5.0.242874How London doth pour out her citizens.

5.0.252875The mayor and all his brethren in best sort,

5.0.262876Like to the senators of th'antique Rome

5.0.272877With the plebeians swarming at their heels,

5.0.282878Go forth and fetch their conqu'ring Caesar in --

5.0.292879As, by a lower but by loving likelihood,

5.0.302880Were now the general of our gracious empress

5.0.312881(As in good time he may) from Ireland coming,

5.0.322882Bringing rebellion broachèd on his sword,

5.0.332883How many would the peaceful city quit

5.0.342884To welcome him? Much more, and much more cause,

5.0.352885Did they this Harry. Now in London place him,

5.0.362886As yet the lamentation of the French

5.0.372887Invites the king of England's stay at home.

5.0.382888The emperor's coming in behalf of France

5.0.392889To order peace between them, we omit:

5.0.402890All the occurrences, whatever chanced,

5.0.412891Till Harry's back return again to France.

5.0.422892There must we bring him, and myself have played

5.0.432893The interim by remembering you 'tis past.

5.0.442894Then brook abridgement, and your eyes advance,

5.0.452895After your thoughts, straight back again to France.