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Sennet. Enter KING, GLOUCESTER, and EXETER, with ATTENDANTS.
Sennet. Enter KING, GLOUCESTER, and EXETER, with ATTENDANTS.
KING HENRY , to GLOUCESTER
Have you perused the letters from the Pope,
The Emperor, and the Earl of Armagnac?
KING HENRY , to GLOUCESTER
Have you perused the letters from the Pope,
The Emperor, and the Earl of Armagnac?
GLOUCESTER
I have, my lord, and their intent is this:
They humbly sue unto your Excellence
5
To have a godly peace concluded of
Between the realms of England and of France.
GLOUCESTER
I have, my lord, and their intent is this:
They humbly sue unto your Excellence
5
To have a godly peace concluded of
Between the realms of England and of France.
KING HENRY
How doth your Grace affect their motion?
KING HENRY
How doth your Grace affect their motion?
GLOUCESTER
Well, my good lord, and as the only means
To stop effusion of our Christian blood
10
And stablish quietness on every side.
GLOUCESTER
Well, my good lord, and as the only means
To stop effusion of our Christian blood
10
And stablish quietness on every side.
KING HENRY
Ay, marry, uncle, for I always thought
It was both impious and unnatural
That such immanity and bloody strife
Should reign among professors of one faith.
KING HENRY
Ay, marry, uncle, for I always thought
It was both impious and unnatural
That such immanity and bloody strife
Should reign among professors of one faith.
GLOUCESTER
15
Besides, my lord, the sooner to effect
And surer bind this knot of amity,
The Earl of Armagnac, near knit to Charles,
A man of great authority in France,
Proffers his only daughter to your Grace
20
In marriage, with a large and sumptuous dowry.
GLOUCESTER
15
Besides, my lord, the sooner to effect
And surer bind this knot of amity,
The Earl of Armagnac, near knit to Charles,
A man of great authority in France,
Proffers his only daughter to your Grace
20
In marriage, with a large and sumptuous dowry.
KING HENRY
Marriage, uncle? Alas, my years are young;
And fitter is my study and my books
Than wanton dalliance with a paramour.
Yet call th’ Ambassadors and, as you please,
25
So let them have their answers every one.
An ATTENDANT exits.
I shall be well content with any choice
Tends to God’s glory and my country’s weal.
KING HENRY
Marriage, uncle? Alas, my years are young;
And fitter is my study and my books
Than wanton dalliance with a paramour.
Yet call th’ Ambassadors and, as you please,
25
So let them have their answers every one.
An ATTENDANT exits.
I shall be well content with any choice
Tends to God’s glory and my country’s weal.
Enter WINCHESTER, dressed in cardinal’s robes, and the AMBASSADOR OF ARMAGNAC, a PAPAL LEGATE, and another AMBASSADOR.
Enter WINCHESTER, dressed in cardinal’s robes, and the AMBASSADOR OF ARMAGNAC, a PAPAL LEGATE, and another AMBASSADOR.
EXETER , aside
What, is my Lord of Winchester installed
And called unto a cardinal’s degree?
30
Then I perceive that will be verified
Henry the Fifth did sometime prophesy:
“If once he come to be a cardinal,
He’ll make his cap coequal with the crown.”
EXETER , aside
What, is my Lord of Winchester installed
And called unto a cardinal’s degree?
30
Then I perceive that will be verified
Henry the Fifth did sometime prophesy:
“If once he come to be a cardinal,
He’ll make his cap coequal with the crown.”
KING HENRY
My Lords Ambassadors, your several suits
35
Have been considered and debated on;
Your purpose is both good and reasonable,
And therefore are we certainly resolved
To draw conditions of a friendly peace,
Which by my Lord of Winchester we mean
40
Shall be transported presently to France.
KING HENRY
My Lords Ambassadors, your several suits
35
Have been considered and debated on;
Your purpose is both good and reasonable,
And therefore are we certainly resolved
To draw conditions of a friendly peace,
Which by my Lord of Winchester we mean
40
Shall be transported presently to France.
GLOUCESTER , to the AMBASSADOR OF ARMAGNAC
And for the proffer of my lord your master,
I have informed his Highness so at large
As, liking of the lady’s virtuous gifts,
Her beauty, and the value of her dower,
45
He doth intend she shall be England’s queen.
GLOUCESTER , to the AMBASSADOR OF ARMAGNAC
And for the proffer of my lord your master,
I have informed his Highness so at large
As, liking of the lady’s virtuous gifts,
Her beauty, and the value of her dower,
45
He doth intend she shall be England’s queen.
KING HENRY , handing a jewel to the AMBASSADOR
In argument and proof of which contract,
Bear her this jewel, pledge of my affection.—
And so, my Lord Protector, see them guarded
And safely brought to Dover, where, inshipped,
50
Commit them to the fortune of the sea.
KING HENRY , handing a jewel to the AMBASSADOR
In argument and proof of which contract,
Bear her this jewel, pledge of my affection.—
And so, my Lord Protector, see them guarded
And safely brought to Dover, where, inshipped,
50
Commit them to the fortune of the sea.
All except WINCHESTER and LEGATE exit.
All except WINCHESTER and LEGATE exit.
WINCHESTER
Stay, my Lord Legate; you shall first receive
The sum of money which I promisèd
Should be delivered to his Holiness
For clothing me in these grave ornaments.
WINCHESTER
Stay, my Lord Legate; you shall first receive
The sum of money which I promisèd
Should be delivered to his Holiness
For clothing me in these grave ornaments.
LEGATE
55
I will attend upon your Lordship’s leisure. He exits.
LEGATE
55
I will attend upon your Lordship’s leisure. He exits.
WINCHESTER
Now Winchester will not submit, I trow,
Or be inferior to the proudest peer.
Humphrey of Gloucester, thou shalt well perceive
That neither in birth or for authority
60
The Bishop will be overborne by thee.
I’ll either make thee stoop and bend thy knee,
Or sack this country with a mutiny.
WINCHESTER
Now Winchester will not submit, I trow,
Or be inferior to the proudest peer.
Humphrey of Gloucester, thou shalt well perceive
That neither in birth or for authority
60
The Bishop will be overborne by thee.
I’ll either make thee stoop and bend thy knee,
Or sack this country with a mutiny.
He exits.
He exits.

Original Text

Modern Text
Sennet. Enter KING, GLOUCESTER, and EXETER, with ATTENDANTS.
Sennet. Enter KING, GLOUCESTER, and EXETER, with ATTENDANTS.
KING HENRY , to GLOUCESTER
Have you perused the letters from the Pope,
The Emperor, and the Earl of Armagnac?
KING HENRY , to GLOUCESTER
Have you perused the letters from the Pope,
The Emperor, and the Earl of Armagnac?
GLOUCESTER
I have, my lord, and their intent is this:
They humbly sue unto your Excellence
5
To have a godly peace concluded of
Between the realms of England and of France.
GLOUCESTER
I have, my lord, and their intent is this:
They humbly sue unto your Excellence
5
To have a godly peace concluded of
Between the realms of England and of France.
KING HENRY
How doth your Grace affect their motion?
KING HENRY
How doth your Grace affect their motion?
GLOUCESTER
Well, my good lord, and as the only means
To stop effusion of our Christian blood
10
And stablish quietness on every side.
GLOUCESTER
Well, my good lord, and as the only means
To stop effusion of our Christian blood
10
And stablish quietness on every side.
KING HENRY
Ay, marry, uncle, for I always thought
It was both impious and unnatural
That such immanity and bloody strife
Should reign among professors of one faith.
KING HENRY
Ay, marry, uncle, for I always thought
It was both impious and unnatural
That such immanity and bloody strife
Should reign among professors of one faith.
GLOUCESTER
15
Besides, my lord, the sooner to effect
And surer bind this knot of amity,
The Earl of Armagnac, near knit to Charles,
A man of great authority in France,
Proffers his only daughter to your Grace
20
In marriage, with a large and sumptuous dowry.
GLOUCESTER
15
Besides, my lord, the sooner to effect
And surer bind this knot of amity,
The Earl of Armagnac, near knit to Charles,
A man of great authority in France,
Proffers his only daughter to your Grace
20
In marriage, with a large and sumptuous dowry.
KING HENRY
Marriage, uncle? Alas, my years are young;
And fitter is my study and my books
Than wanton dalliance with a paramour.
Yet call th’ Ambassadors and, as you please,
25
So let them have their answers every one.
An ATTENDANT exits.
I shall be well content with any choice
Tends to God’s glory and my country’s weal.
KING HENRY
Marriage, uncle? Alas, my years are young;
And fitter is my study and my books
Than wanton dalliance with a paramour.
Yet call th’ Ambassadors and, as you please,
25
So let them have their answers every one.
An ATTENDANT exits.
I shall be well content with any choice
Tends to God’s glory and my country’s weal.
Enter WINCHESTER, dressed in cardinal’s robes, and the AMBASSADOR OF ARMAGNAC, a PAPAL LEGATE, and another AMBASSADOR.
Enter WINCHESTER, dressed in cardinal’s robes, and the AMBASSADOR OF ARMAGNAC, a PAPAL LEGATE, and another AMBASSADOR.
EXETER , aside
What, is my Lord of Winchester installed
And called unto a cardinal’s degree?
30
Then I perceive that will be verified
Henry the Fifth did sometime prophesy:
“If once he come to be a cardinal,
He’ll make his cap coequal with the crown.”
EXETER , aside
What, is my Lord of Winchester installed
And called unto a cardinal’s degree?
30
Then I perceive that will be verified
Henry the Fifth did sometime prophesy:
“If once he come to be a cardinal,
He’ll make his cap coequal with the crown.”
KING HENRY
My Lords Ambassadors, your several suits
35
Have been considered and debated on;
Your purpose is both good and reasonable,
And therefore are we certainly resolved
To draw conditions of a friendly peace,
Which by my Lord of Winchester we mean
40
Shall be transported presently to France.
KING HENRY
My Lords Ambassadors, your several suits
35
Have been considered and debated on;
Your purpose is both good and reasonable,
And therefore are we certainly resolved
To draw conditions of a friendly peace,
Which by my Lord of Winchester we mean
40
Shall be transported presently to France.
GLOUCESTER , to the AMBASSADOR OF ARMAGNAC
And for the proffer of my lord your master,
I have informed his Highness so at large
As, liking of the lady’s virtuous gifts,
Her beauty, and the value of her dower,
45
He doth intend she shall be England’s queen.
GLOUCESTER , to the AMBASSADOR OF ARMAGNAC
And for the proffer of my lord your master,
I have informed his Highness so at large
As, liking of the lady’s virtuous gifts,
Her beauty, and the value of her dower,
45
He doth intend she shall be England’s queen.
KING HENRY , handing a jewel to the AMBASSADOR
In argument and proof of which contract,
Bear her this jewel, pledge of my affection.—
And so, my Lord Protector, see them guarded
And safely brought to Dover, where, inshipped,
50
Commit them to the fortune of the sea.
KING HENRY , handing a jewel to the AMBASSADOR
In argument and proof of which contract,
Bear her this jewel, pledge of my affection.—
And so, my Lord Protector, see them guarded
And safely brought to Dover, where, inshipped,
50
Commit them to the fortune of the sea.
All except WINCHESTER and LEGATE exit.
All except WINCHESTER and LEGATE exit.
WINCHESTER
Stay, my Lord Legate; you shall first receive
The sum of money which I promisèd
Should be delivered to his Holiness
For clothing me in these grave ornaments.
WINCHESTER
Stay, my Lord Legate; you shall first receive
The sum of money which I promisèd
Should be delivered to his Holiness
For clothing me in these grave ornaments.
LEGATE
55
I will attend upon your Lordship’s leisure. He exits.
LEGATE
55
I will attend upon your Lordship’s leisure. He exits.
WINCHESTER
Now Winchester will not submit, I trow,
Or be inferior to the proudest peer.
Humphrey of Gloucester, thou shalt well perceive
That neither in birth or for authority
60
The Bishop will be overborne by thee.
I’ll either make thee stoop and bend thy knee,
Or sack this country with a mutiny.
WINCHESTER
Now Winchester will not submit, I trow,
Or be inferior to the proudest peer.
Humphrey of Gloucester, thou shalt well perceive
That neither in birth or for authority
60
The Bishop will be overborne by thee.
I’ll either make thee stoop and bend thy knee,
Or sack this country with a mutiny.
He exits.
He exits.
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