of Henry the fift.
23962To bar your highne
sse claiming from the female,
24063And rather choo
se to hide them in a net,
24164Then amply to imbace their crooked cau
ses,
24265V
surpt from you and your progenitors.
24366K. May we with right & con
science make this
(claime? 24467Bi. The
sin vpon my head dread
soueraigne.
24568For in the booke of Numbers is it writ,
24669When the
sonne dies, let the inheritance
24770De
scend vnto the daughter.
71Noble Lord
stand for your owne,
24872Vnwinde your bloody
flagge,
25073Go my dread Lord to your great graun
sirs graue,
25174From whom you clayme:
25275And your great Vncle
Edward the blacke Prince,
25376Who on the French ground playd a Tragedy
25477Making defeat on the full power of
France,
25578While
st his mo
st mighty father on a hill,
25679Stood
smiling to behold his Lyons whelpe,
25780Foraging blood of French Nobilitie.
25881O Noble Engli
sh that could entertaine
25982With halfe their Forces the full power of
France: 26083And let an other halfe
stand laughing by,
26184All out of worke, and cold for a
ction.
28385King. We mu
st not onely arme vs again
st the French,
28486But lay downe our proportion for the Scot,
28587Who will make rode vpon vs with all aduantgages.
28788Bi. The Marches gracious
soueraigne,
shalbe
su
fficient
28889To guard your
England from the pilfering borderers.
29090King. We do not meane the cour
sing
sneakers onely,
29191But feare the mayne entendement of the Scot,
29392For you
shall read, neuer my great grandfather
29493Vnmaskt his power for
France,
29594But that the Scot on his vnfurni
sht Kingdome,
29695Came pouring like the Tide into a breach,
30096That
England being empty of defences,
30197Hath
shooke and trembled at the brute hereof.
30298Bi. She hath bin then more feared then hurt my Lord:
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