Now you Lords of Orléans, 887.2502of Bourbon, and of Berry,

5.2887.3503You see the King of England is not slack,

5.31039504For he is footed on this land already.

My gracious lord, 903'tis meet we all go forth,

5.5506And arm us against the foe,

5.6910507And view the weak and sickly parts of France.

5.7911508But let us do it with no show of fear,

5.8912509No, with no more than if we heard

5.9510England 913were busied with a morris dance.

5.10914511For, my good Lord, she is so idly kinged,

5.11915512Her scepter so fantastically borne,

5.12916513So guided by a shallow humorous youth,

5.13917514That fear attends her not.

Oh, peace, Prince Dauphin; you deceive yourself. --

5.15920516Question your grace the late ambassador:

5.16921517With what regard he heard his embassage,

5.17922518How well supplied with agèd counselors,

5.18922.1519And how his resolution answered him.

5.19922.3520You then would say that Harry was not wild.

Well, think we Harry strong,

5.21939522And strongly arm us to prevent the foe.

My lord, here is an ambassador

5.23939.2524From the King of England.

Bid him come in.

5.25960526You see this chase is hotly followed, lords.

My gracious father, 964cut up this English short.

5.27966528Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a thing

5.28967529As self-neglecting.

As self-neglecting. From our brother England?

From him, and thus he greets your majesty:

5.30971533He wills you in the name of God almighty

5.31972534That you divest yourself, and lay apart

5.32973535That borrowed title, which by gift of heaven,

5.33974536Of law, of nature, and of nations, longs

5.34975537To him and to his heirs, namely the crown

5.35976538And all wide-stretchèd titles that belongs

5.36978539Unto the crown of France. That you may know

5.37979540'Tis no sinister nor no awkward claim

5.38980541Picked from the wormholes of old vanished days,

5.39981542Nor from the dust of old oblivion racked,

5.40982543He sends you these most memorable lines,

5.41983544In every branch truly demonstrated,

5.42984545Willing you overlook this pedigree.

5.43985546And when you find him evenly derived

5.44986547From his most famed and famous ancestors,

5.45987548Edward the Third, he bids you then resign

5.46988549Your crown and kingdom, indirectly held

5.47989550From him, the native and true challenger.

If not, what follows?

Bloody constraint: for if you hide the crown

5.50992553Even in your hearts, there will he rake for it.

5.51993554Therefore in fierce tempest is he coming,

5.52994555In thunder and in earthquake, like a Jove,

5.53995556That if requiring fail, he will compel it.

5.541000557And on your heads turns he the widows' tears,

5.55558The orphans' cries, 1001the dead men's bones,

5.56559The pining maidens' groans

5.571002560For husbands, fathers, and distressèd lovers,

5.581003561Which shall be swallowed in this controversy.

5.591004562This is his claim, his threat'ning, and my message,

5.601005563Unless the dauphin be in presence here,

5.611006564To whom expressly we bring greeting too.

For the dauphin? 1011I stand here for him,

5.63566What to hear from England?

Scorn and defiance, slight regard, contempt,

5.651013568And anything that may not misbecome

5.661014569The mighty sender doth he prize you at.

5.671015570Thus saith my king: unless your father's highness

5.681017571Sweeten the bitter mock you sent his majesty,

5.691018572He'll call you to so loud an answer for it,

5.701019573That caves and wombly vaults of France

5.711020574Shall chide your trespass and return your mock

5.721021575In second accent of his ordinance.

Say that, my father render fair reply,

5.741023577It is against my will, 578for I desire

5.751024Nothing so much 579as odds with England.

5.761025580And for that cause, according to his youth

5.771026581I did present him with those Paris balls.

He'll make your Paris Louvre shake for it,

5.791028583Were it the mistress court of mighty Europe.

5.801029584And be assured, you'll find a difference,

5.811030585As we his subjects have in wonder found,

5.821031586Between his younger days 1032and these he musters now,

5.83587Now he weighs time 1033even to the latest grain,

5.84588Which you shall find 1034in your own losses

5.85589If he stay in France.

Well, for us, you shall return our answer back

5.871034.2591To our brother England.