Henry VI Part 1, with line numbers E-Book

William Shakespeare

• Herausgeber: Seltzer Books
• Kategorie: Poesie und Drama
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 118

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2018

Beschreibung

The classic Shakespeare history play, with line numbers. According to Wikipedia: "William Shakespeare (baptised 26 April 1564 – died 23 April 1616) was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon" (or simply "The Bard"). His surviving works consist of 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and several other poems. His plays have been translated into every major living language, and are performed more often than those of any other playwright."

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King Henry VI Part 1 By William Shakespeare

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Dramatis Personae

King Henry VI Part 1

Act I

Scene I Westminster Abbey.

Scene II France. Before Orleans.

Scene III London. Before The Tower.

Scene IV Orleans.

Scene V The Same.

Scene VI The Same.

Act II

Scene I Before Orleans.

Scene II Orleans. Within The Town.

Scene III Auvergne. The Countess's Castle.

Scene IV London. The Temple-Garden.

Scene V The Tower Of London.

Act III

Scene I London. The Parliament-House.

Scene II France. Before Rouen.

Scene III The Plains Near Rouen.

Scene IV Paris. The Palace.

Act IV

Scene I Paris. A Hall Of State.

Scene II Before Bourdeaux.

Scene III Plains In Gascony.

Scene IV Other Plains In Gascony.

Scene V The English Camp Near Bourdeaux.

Scene VI A Field Of Battle.

Scene VII Another Part Of The Field.

Act V

Scene I London. The Palace.

Scene II France. Plains In Anjou.

Scene III Before Angiers.

Scene IV Camp Of The York In Anjou.

Scene V London. The Palace.

DRAMATIS PERSONAE

King Henry The Sixth (King Henry VI:)

Duke Of Gloucester, Uncle To The King, And Protector. (Gloucester:)

Duke Of Bedford, Uncle To The King, And Regent Of France. (Bedford:)

Thomas Beaufort, Duke Of Exeter, Great-Uncle To The King. (Exeter:)

Henry Beaufort, Great-Uncle To The King, Bishop Of Winchester, And Afterwards Cardinal. (Bishop Of Winchester:)

John Beaufort, Earl, Afterwards Duke, Of Somerset. (Somerset:)

Richard Plantagenet, Son Of Richard Late Earl Of Cambridge, (Richard Plantagenet:) Afterwards Duke Of York. (York:)

Earl Of Warwick (Warwick:)

Earl Of Salisbury (Salisbury:)

Earl Of Suffolk (Suffolk:)

Lord Talbot, Afterwards Earl Of Shrewsbury. (Talbot:)

John Talbot, Lord Talbot's Son.

Edmund Mortimer, Earl Of March. (Mortimer:)

Sir John Fastolfe (Fastolfe:)

Sir William Lucy (Lucy:)

Sir William Glansdale (Glandsdale:)

Sir Thomas Gargrave (Gargrave:)

Mayor Of London (Mayor:)

Woodvile. Lieutenant Of The Tower.

Vernon, Of The White-Rose Or York Faction.

Basset, Of The Red-Rose Or Lancaster Faction.

A Lawyer. (Lawyer:)

Mortimer's Keepers. (First Gaoler:)

Charles Dauphin, And Afterwards King, Of France.

Reignier, Duke Of Anjou, And Titular King Of Naples.

Duke Of Burgundy (Burgundy:)

Duke Of Alencon (Alencon:)

Bastard Of Orleans:

Governor Of Paris.

Master-Gunner Of Orleans, (Master-Gunner:)

And His Son. (Boy:)

General Of The French Forces In Bourdeaux. (General:)

A French Sergeant. (Sargeant:)

A Porter.

An Old Shepherd, Father To Joan La Pucelle. (Shepherd:)

Margaret Daughter To Reignier, Afterwards Married To King Henry.

Countess Of Auvergne:

Joan La Pucelle, Commonly Called Joan Of Arc.

Lords, Warders of the Tower, Heralds, Officers, Soldiers, Messengers, and Attendants.

 (First Warder:)

 (Second Warder:)

 (Captain:)

 (Officer:)

 (Soldier:)

 (First Soldier:)

 (Watch:)

 (Scout:)

 (First Sentinel:)

 (Servant:)

 (First Serving-Man:)

 (Second Serving-Man:)

 (Third Serving-Man:)

Fiends appearing to La Pucelle.

SCENE Partly in England, and partly in France.

KING HENRY VI Part 1

ACT I

SCENE I Westminster Abbey.

[Dead March. Enter the Funeral of KING HENRY the Fifth, attended on by DUKES OF BEDFORD, REGENT OF FRANCE; GLOUCESTER, Protector; and EXETER, EARL OF WARWICK, the BISHOP OF WINCHESTER, HERALDS, &c]

(1) BEDFORD Hung be the heavens with black, yield day to night!

 Comets, importing change of times and states,

 Brandish your crystal tresses in the sky,

 And with them scourge the bad revolting stars

 That have consented unto Henry's death!

 King Henry the Fifth, too famous to live long!

 England ne'er lost a king of so much worth.

GLOUCESTER England ne'er had a king until his time.

 Virtue he had, deserving to command:

(10) His brandish'd sword did blind men with his beams:

 His arms spread wider than a dragon's wings;

 His sparking eyes, replete with wrathful fire,

 More dazzled and drove back his enemies

 Than mid-day sun fierce bent against their faces.

 What should I say? his deeds exceed all speech:

 He ne'er lift up his hand but conquered.

EXETER We mourn in black: why mourn we not in blood?

 Henry is dead and never shall revive:

 Upon a wooden coffin we attend,

(20) And death's dishonourable victory

 We with our stately presence glorify,

 Like captives bound to a triumphant car.

 What! shall we curse the planets of mishap

 That plotted thus our glory's overthrow?

 Or shall we think the subtle-witted French

 Conjurers and sorcerers, that afraid of him

 By magic verses have contrived his end?

BISHOP OF WINCHESTER He was a king bless'd of the King of kings.

 Unto the French the dreadful judgement-day

(30) So dreadful will not be as was his sight.

 The battles of the Lord of hosts he fought:

 The church's prayers made him so prosperous.

GLOUCESTER The church! where is it? Had not churchmen pray'd,

 His thread of life had not so soon decay'd:

 None do you like but an effeminate prince,

 Whom, like a school-boy, you may over-awe.

BISHOP OF WINCHESTER Gloucester, whate'er we like, thou art protector

 And lookest to command the prince and realm.

 Thy wife is proud; she holdeth thee in awe,

(40) More than God or religious churchmen may.

GLOUCESTER Name not religion, for thou lovest the flesh,

 And ne'er throughout the year to church thou go'st

 Except it be to pray against thy foes.

BEDFORD Cease, cease these jars and rest your minds in peace:

 Let's to the altar: heralds, wait on us:

 Instead of gold, we'll offer up our arms:

 Since arms avail not now that Henry's dead.

 Posterity, await for wretched years,

 When at their mothers' moist eyes babes shall suck,

(50) Our isle be made a nourish of salt tears,

 And none but women left to wail the dead.

 Henry the Fifth, thy ghost I invocate:

 Prosper this realm, keep it from civil broils,

 Combat with adverse planets in the heavens!

 A far more glorious star thy soul will make

 Than Julius Caesar or bright--

[Enter a MESSENGER ]

MESSENGER  My honourable lords, health to you all!

 Sad tidings bring I to you out of France,

 Of loss, of slaughter and discomfiture:

(60) Guienne, Champagne, Rheims, Orleans,

 Paris, Guysors, Poictiers, are all quite lost.

BEDFORD What say'st thou, man, before dead Henry's corse?

 Speak softly, or the loss of those great towns

 Will make him burst his lead and rise from death.

GLOUCESTER Is Paris lost? is Rouen yielded up?

 If Henry were recall'd to life again,

 These news would cause him once more yield the ghost.

EXETER How were they lost? what treachery was used?

MESSENGER  No treachery; but want of men and money.

(70) Amongst the soldiers this is muttered,

 That here you maintain several factions,

 And whilst a field should be dispatch'd and fought,

 You are disputing of your generals:

 One would have lingering wars with little cost;

 Another would fly swift, but wanteth wings;

 A third thinks, without expense at all,

 By guileful fair words peace may be obtain'd.

 Awake, awake, English nobility!

 Let not sloth dim your horrors new-begot:

(80) Cropp'd are the flower-de-luces in your arms;

 Of England's coat one half is cut away.

EXETER Were our tears wanting to this funeral,

 These tidings would call forth their flowing tides.

BEDFORD Me they concern; Regent I am of France.

 Give me my steeled coat. I'll fight for France.

 Away with these disgraceful wailing robes!

 Wounds will I lend the French instead of eyes,

 To weep their intermissive miseries.

[Enter to them another MESSENGER ]

MESSENGER  Lords, view these letters full of bad mischance.

(90) France is revolted from the English quite,

 Except some petty towns of no import:

 The Dauphin Charles is crowned king of Rheims;

 The Bastard of Orleans with him is join'd;

 Reignier, Duke of Anjou, doth take his part;

 The Duke of Alencon flieth to his side.

EXETER The Dauphin crowned king! all fly to him!

 O, whither shall we fly from this reproach?

GLOUCESTER We will not fly, but to our enemies' throats.

 Bedford, if thou be slack, I'll fight it out.

(100) BEDFORD Gloucester, why doubt'st thou of my forwardness?

 An army have I muster'd in my thoughts,

 Wherewith already France is overrun.

 [Enter another MESSENGER ]

MESSENGER  My gracious lords, to add to your laments,

 Wherewith you now bedew King Henry's hearse,

 I must inform you of a dismal fight

 Betwixt the stout Lord Talbot and the French.

BISHOP OF WINCHESTER What! wherein Talbot overcame? is't so?

MESSENGER  O, no; wherein Lord Talbot was o'erthrown:

 The circumstance I'll tell you more at large.

(110) The tenth of August last this dreadful lord,

 Retiring from the siege of Orleans,

 Having full scarce six thousand in his troop.

 By three and twenty thousand of the French

 Was round encompassed and set upon.

 No leisure had he to enrank his men;

 He wanted pikes to set before his archers;

 Instead whereof sharp stakes pluck'd out of hedges

 They pitched in the ground confusedly,

 To keep the horsemen off from breaking in.

(120) More than three hours the fight continued;

 Where valiant Talbot above human thought

 Enacted wonders with his sword and lance:

 Hundreds he sent to hell, and none durst stand him;

 Here, there, and every where, enraged he flew:

 The French exclaim'd, the devil was in arms;

 All the whole army stood agazed on him:

 His soldiers spying his undaunted spirit

 A Talbot! a Talbot! cried out amain

 And rush'd into the bowels of the battle.

(130) Here had the conquest fully been seal'd up,

 If Sir John Fastolfe had not play'd the coward:

 He, being in the vaward, placed behind

 With purpose to relieve and follow them,

 Cowardly fled, not having struck one stroke.

 Hence grew the general wreck and massacre;

 Enclosed were they with their enemies:

 A base Walloon, to win the Dauphin's grace,

 Thrust Talbot with a spear into the back,

 Whom all France with their chief assembled strength

(140) Durst not presume to look once in the face.

BEDFORD Is Talbot slain? then I will slay myself,

 For living idly here in pomp and ease,

 Whilst such a worthy leader, wanting aid,

 Unto his dastard foemen is betray'd.

MESSENGER  O no, he lives; but is took prisoner,

 And Lord Scales with him and Lord Hungerford:

 Most of the rest slaughter'd or took likewise.

BEDFORD His ransom there is none but I shall pay:

 I'll hale the Dauphin headlong from his throne:

(150) His crown shall be the ransom of my friend;

 Four of their lords I'll change for one of ours.

 Farewell, my masters; to my task will I;

 Bonfires in France forthwith I am to make,

 To keep our great Saint George's feast withal:

 Ten thousand soldiers with me I will take,

 Whose bloody deeds shall make all Europe quake.

MESSENGER  So you had need; for Orleans is besieged;

 The English army is grown weak and faint:

 The Earl of Salisbury craveth supply,

(160) And hardly keeps his men from mutiny,

 Since they, so few, watch such a multitude.

EXETER Remember, lords, your oaths to Henry sworn,

 Either to quell the Dauphin utterly,

 Or bring him in obedience to your yoke.

BEDFORD I do remember it; and here take my leave,

 To go about my preparation.

[Exit]

GLOUCESTER I'll to the Tower with all the haste I can,

 To view the artillery and munition;

 And then I will proclaim young Henry king.

[Exit]

(170) EXETER To Eltham will I, where the young king is,

 Being ordain'd his special governor,

 And for his safety there I'll best devise.

[Exit]

BISHOP OF WINCHESTER Each hath his place and function to attend:

 I am left out; for me nothing remains.

 But long I will not be Jack out of office:

 The king from Eltham I intend to steal

 And sit at chiefest stern of public weal.

[Exeunt]

SCENE II France. Before Orleans.

[Sound a flourish. Enter CHARLES, ALENCON, and REIGNIER, marching with drum and SOLDIERS]

(1) CHARLES Mars his true moving, even as in the heavens

 So in the earth, to this day is not known:

 Late did he shine upon the English side;

 Now we are victors; upon us he smiles.

 What towns of any moment but we have?

 At pleasure here we lie near Orleans;

 Otherwhiles the famish'd English, like pale ghosts,

 Faintly besiege us one hour in a month.

ALENCON They want their porridge and their fat bull-beeves:

(10) Either they must be dieted like mules

 And have their provender tied to their mouths

 Or piteous they will look, like drowned mice.

REIGNIER Let's raise the siege: why live we idly here?

 Talbot is taken, whom we wont to fear:

 Remaineth none but mad-brain'd Salisbury;

 And he may well in fretting spend his gall,

 Nor men nor money hath he to make war.

CHARLES Sound, sound alarum! we will rush on them.

 Now for the honour of the forlorn French!

(20) Him I forgive my death that killeth me

 When he sees me go back one foot or fly.

[Exeunt]

[Here alarum; they are beaten back by the English with great loss. Re-enter CHARLES, ALENCON, and REIGNIER]

CHARLES Who ever saw the like? what men have I!

 Dogs! cowards! dastards! I would ne'er have fled,

 But that they left me 'midst my enemies.

REIGNIER Salisbury is a desperate homicide;

 He fighteth as one weary of his life.

 The other lords, like lions wanting food,

 Do rush upon us as their hungry prey.

ALENCON Froissart, a countryman of ours, records,

(30) England all Olivers and Rowlands bred,

 During the time Edward the Third did reign.

 More truly now may this be verified;

 For none but Samsons and Goliases

 It sendeth forth to skirmish. One to ten!

 Lean, raw-boned rascals! who would e'er suppose

 They had such courage and audacity?

CHARLES Let's leave this town; for they are hare-brain'd slaves,

 And hunger will enforce them to be more eager:

 Of old I know them; rather with their teeth

(40) The walls they'll tear down than forsake the siege.

REIGNIER I think, by some odd gimmors or device