King Henry V, with line numbers E-Book

William Shakespeare

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

Seitenzahl: 141

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2018

Beschreibung

The classic Shakespearean history, with line numbers. According to Wikipedia: "Henry V is a history play by William Shakespeare, believed to be written in 1599. It is based on the life of King Henry V of England, and focuses on events immediately before and after the Battle of Agincourt (1415) during the Hundred Years' War. The play is the final part of a tetralogy, preceded by Richard II, Henry IV, part 1 and Henry IV, part 2. The original audiences would thus have already been familiar with the title character, who was depicted in the Henry IV plays as a wild, undisciplined lad known as "Prince Hal." In Henry V, the young prince has become a mature man and embarks on an attempted conquest of France."

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King Henry V By William Shakespeare

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Dramatis Personae

King Henry V

Prologue

Act I

Scene I London. An Ante-Chamber In The King's Palace.

Scene II The Same. The Presence Chamber.

Act II

Prologue

Scene I London. A street.

Scene II Southampton. A Council-Chamber.

Scene III London. Before A Tavern.

Scene IV France. The King's Palace.

Act III

Prologue

Scene I France. Before Harfleur.

Scene II The Same.

Scene III The Same. Before The Gates.

Scene IV The French King's Palace.

Scene V The Same.

Scene VI The English Camp In Picardy.

Scene VII The French Camp, Near Agincourt.

Act IV

Prologue

Scene I The English Camp At Agincourt.

Scene II The French Camp.

Scene III The English Camp.

Scene IV The Field Of Battle.

Scene V Another Part Of The Field.

Scene VI Another Part Of The Field.

Scene VII Another Part Of The Field.

Scene VIII Before King Henry's Pavilion.

Act V

Scene I France. The English Camp.

Scene II France. A Royal Palace.

Epilogue

DRAMATIS PERSONAE

King Henry The Fifth. (King Henry V)

Brothers To The King:

Duke Of Gloucester (Gloucester:)

Duke Of Bedford (Bedford:)

Duke Of Exeter Uncle To The King. (Exeter:)

Duke Of York Cousin To The King. (York:)

Earl Of Salisbury (Salisbury:)

Earl Of Westmoreland (Westmoreland:)

Earl Of Warwick (Warwick:)

Bishop Of Canterbury (Canterbury:)

Bishop Of Ely (Ely:)

Earl Of Cambridge (Cambridge:)

Lord Scroop (Scroop:)

Sir Thomas Grey (Grey:)

Officers In King Henry's Army

Sir Thomas Erpingham (Erpingham:)

Gower

Fluellen

Macmorris

Jamy

Soldiers In The Same

Bates

Court

Williams

Pistol

Nym

Bardolph

Boy

A Herald

Charles The Sixth,King Of France. (King Of France:) (French King:)

Lewis The Dauphin. (Dauphin:)

Duke Of Burgundy (Burgundy:)

Duke Of Orleans (Orleans:)

Duke Of Bourbon (Bourbon:)

The Constable Of France. (Constable:)

French Lords:

Rambures

Grandpre

Governor Of Harfleur

Montjoy,A French Herald

Ambassadors To The King Of England

Isabel,Queen Of France. (Queen Isabel:)

Katharine,Daughter To Charles And Isabel

Alice,A Lady Attending On Her

Hostess of a tavern in Eastcheap formerly Mistress Quickly, and now married to Pistol.

Lords, Ladies, Officers, Soldiers, Citizens, Messengers, and Attendants. Chorus.

(Hostess:)

(First Ambassador:)

(Messenger:)

(French Soldier:)

SCENE England; afterwards France.

KING HENRY V

PROLOGUE

[Enter CHORUS]

(1) CHORUS O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend

 The brightest heaven of invention,

 A kingdom for a stage, princes to act

 And monarchs to behold the swelling scene!

 Then should the warlike Harry, like himself,

 Assume the port of Mars; and at his heels,

 Leash'd in like hounds, should famine, sword and fire

 Crouch for employment. But pardon, and gentles all,

 The flat unraised spirits that have dared

(10) On this unworthy scaffold to bring forth

 So great an object: can this cockpit hold

 The vasty fields of France? or may we cram

 Within this wooden O the very casques

 That did affright the air at Agincourt?

 O, pardon! since a crooked figure may

 Attest in little place a million;

 And let us, ciphers to this great accompt,

 On your imaginary forces work.

 Suppose within the girdle of these walls

(20) Are now confined two mighty monarchies,

 Whose high upreared and abutting fronts

 The perilous narrow ocean parts asunder:

 Piece out our imperfections with your thoughts;

 Into a thousand parts divide on man,

 And make imaginary puissance;

 Think when we talk of horses, that you see them

 Printing their proud hoofs i' the receiving earth;

 For 'tis your thoughts that now must deck our kings,

 Carry them here and there; jumping o'er times,

(30) Turning the accomplishment of many years

 Into an hour-glass: for the which supply,

 Admit me Chorus to this history;

 Who prologue-like your humble patience pray,

 Gently to hear, kindly to judge, our play.

 [Exit]

ACT I

SCENE I London. An ante-chamber in the KING'S palace.

[Enter the ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY, and the BISHOP OF ELY]

(1) CANTERBURY My lord, I'll tell you; that self bill is urged,

 Which in the eleventh year of the last king's reign

 Was like, and had indeed against us pass'd,

 But that the scambling and unquiet time

 Did push it out of farther question.

ELY But how, my lord, shall we resist it now?

CANTERBURY It must be thought on. If it pass against us,

 We lose the better half of our possession:

 For all the temporal lands which men devout

(10) By testament have given to the church

 Would they strip from us; being valued thus:

 As much as would maintain, to the king's honour,

 Full fifteen earls and fifteen hundred knights,

 Six thousand and two hundred good esquires;

 And, to relief of lazars and weak age,

 Of indigent faint souls past corporal toil.

 A hundred almshouses right well supplied;

 And to the coffers of the king beside,

 A thousand pounds by the year: thus runs the bill.

ELY This would drink deep.

(20) CANTERBURY 'Twould drink the cup and all.

ELY But what prevention?

CANTERBURY The king is full of grace and fair regard.

ELY And a true lover of the holy church.

CANTERBURY The courses of his youth promised it not.

 The breath no sooner left his father's body,

 But that his wildness, mortified in him,

 Seem'd to die too; yea, at that very moment

 Consideration, like an angel, came

 And whipp'd the offending Adam out of him,

(30) Leaving his body as a paradise,

 To envelop and contain celestial spirits.

 Never was such a sudden scholar made;

 Never came reformation in a flood,

 With such a heady currance, scouring faults

 Nor never Hydra-headed wilfulness

 So soon did lose his seat and all at once

 As in this king.

ELY                   We are blessed in the change.

CANTERBURY Hear him but reason in divinity,

 And all-admiring with an inward wish

(40) You would desire the king were made a prelate:

 Hear him debate of commonwealth affairs,

 You would say it hath been all in all his study:

 List his discourse of war, and you shall hear

 A fearful battle render'd you in music:

 Turn him to any cause of policy,

 The Gordian knot of it he will unloose,

 Familiar as his garter: that, when he speaks,

 The air, a charter'd libertine, is still,

 And the mute wonder lurketh in men's ears,

(50) To steal his sweet and honey'd sentences;

 So that the art and practic part of life

 Must be the mistress to this theoric:

 Which is a wonder how his grace should glean it,

 Since his addiction was to courses vain,

 His companies unletter'd, rude and shallow,

 His hours fill'd up with riots, banquets, sports,

 And never noted in him any study,

 Any retirement, any sequestration

 From open haunts and popularity.

(60) ELY The strawberry grows underneath the nettle

 And wholesome berries thrive and ripen best

 Neighbour'd by fruit of baser quality:

 And so the prince obscured his contemplation

 Under the veil of wildness; which, no doubt,

 Grew like the summer grass, fastest by night,

 Unseen, yet crescive in his faculty.

CANTERBURY It must be so; for miracles are ceased;

 And therefore we must needs admit the means

 How things are perfected.

ELY But, my good lord,

 How now for mitigation of this bill

(70) Urged by the commons? Doth his majesty

 Incline to it, or no?

CANTERBURY He seems indifferent,

 Or rather swaying more upon our part

 Than cherishing the exhibiters against us;

 For I have made an offer to his majesty,

 Upon our spiritual convocation

 And in regard of causes now in hand,

 Which I have open'd to his grace at large,

 As touching France, to give a greater sum

(80) Than ever at one time the clergy yet

 Did to his predecessors part withal.

ELY How did this offer seem received, my lord?

CANTERBURY With good acceptance of his majesty;

 Save that there was not time enough to hear,

 As I perceived his grace would fain have done,

 The severals and unhidden passages

 Of his true titles to some certain dukedoms

 And generally to the crown and seat of France

 Derived from Edward, his great-grandfather.

(90) ELY What was the impediment that broke this off?

CANTERBURY The French ambassador upon that instant

 Craved audience; and the hour, I think, is come

 To give him hearing: is it four o'clock?

ELY It is.

CANTERBURY Then go we in, to know his embassy;

 Which I could with a ready guess declare,

 Before the Frenchman speak a word of it.

ELY I'll wait upon you, and I long to hear it.

 [Exeunt]

SCENE II The same. The Presence chamber.

[Enter KING HENRY V, GLOUCESTER, BEDFORD, EXETER, WARWICK, WESTMORELAND, and ATTENDANTS]

(1) KING HENRY V Where is my gracious Lord of Canterbury?

EXETER Not here in presence.

KING HENRY V Send for him, good uncle.

WESTMORELAND Shall we call in the ambassador, my liege?

KING HENRY V Not yet, my cousin: we would be resolved,

 Before we hear him, of some things of weight

 That task our thoughts, concerning us and France.

 [Enter the ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY, and the BISHOP of ELY]

CANTERBURY God and his angels guard your sacred throne

 And make you long become it!

KING HENRY V Sure, we thank you.

 My learned lord, we pray you to proceed

(10) And justly and religiously unfold

 Why the law Salique that they have in France

 Or should, or should not, bar us in our claim:

 And God forbid, my dear and faithful lord,

 That you should fashion, wrest, or bow your reading,

 Or nicely charge your understanding soul

 With opening titles miscreate, whose right

 Suits not in native colours with the truth;

 For God doth know how many now in health

 Shall drop their blood in approbation

(20) Of what your reverence shall incite us to.

 Therefore take heed how you impawn our person,

 How you awake our sleeping sword of war:

 We charge you, in the name of God, take heed;

 For never two such kingdoms did contend

 Without much fall of blood; whose guiltless drops

 Are every one a woe, a sore complaint

 'Gainst him whose wrong gives edge unto the swords

 That make such waste in brief mortality.

 Under this conjuration, speak, my lord;

(30) For we will hear, note and believe in heart

 That what you speak is in your conscience wash'd

 As pure as sin with baptism.

CANTERBURY Then hear me, gracious sovereign, and you peers,

 That owe yourselves, your lives and services

 To this imperial throne. There is no bar

 To make against your highness' claim to France

 But this, which they produce from Pharamond,

 'In terram Salicam mulieres ne succedant:'

 'No woman shall succeed in Salique land:'

(40) Which Salique land the French unjustly gloze

 To be the realm of France, and Pharamond

 The founder of this law and female bar.

 Yet their own authors faithfully affirm

 That the land Salique is in Germany,

 Between the floods of Sala and of Elbe;

 Where Charles the Great, having subdued the Saxons,

 There left behind and settled certain French;

 Who, holding in disdain the German women

 For some dishonest manners of their life,

(50) Establish'd then this law; to wit, no female

 Should be inheritrix in Salique land:

 Which Salique, as I said, 'twixt Elbe and Sala,

 Is at this day in Germany call'd Meisen.

 Then doth it well appear that Salique law

 Was not devised for the realm of France:

 Nor did the French possess the Salique land

 Until four hundred one and twenty years

 After defunction of King Pharamond,

 Idly supposed the founder of this law;

(60) Who died within the year of our redemption

 Four hundred twenty-six; and Charles the Great

 Subdued the Saxons, and did seat the French

 Beyond the river Sala, in the year

 Eight hundred five. Besides, their writers say,

 King Pepin, which deposed Childeric,

 Did, as heir general, being descended

 Of Blithild, which was daughter to King Clothair,

 Make claim and title to the crown of France.

 Hugh Capet also, who usurped the crown

(70) Of Charles the duke of Lorraine, sole heir male

 Of the true line and stock of Charles the Great,

 To find his title with some shows of truth,

 'Through, in pure truth, it was corrupt and naught,

 Convey'd himself as heir to the Lady Lingare,

 Daughter to Charlemain, who was the son

 To Lewis the emperor, and Lewis the son

 Of Charles the Great. Also King Lewis the Tenth,

 Who was sole heir to the usurper Capet,

 Could not keep quiet in his conscience,

(80) Wearing the crown of France, till satisfied

 That fair Queen Isabel, his grandmother,

 Was lineal of the Lady Ermengare,

 Daughter to Charles the foresaid duke of Lorraine:

 By the which marriage the line of Charles the Great

 Was re-united to the crown of France.

 So that, as clear as is the summer's sun.

 King Pepin's title and Hugh Capet's claim,

 King Lewis his satisfaction, all appear

 To hold in right and title of the female:

(90) So do the kings of France unto this day;

 Howbeit they would hold up this Salique law

 To bar your highness claiming from the female,

 And rather choose to hide them in a net

 Than amply to imbar their crooked titles

 Usurp'd from you and your progenitors.

KING HENRY V May I with right and conscience make this claim?

CANTERBURY The sin upon my head, dread sovereign!

 For in the book of Numbers is it writ,

 When the man dies, let the inheritance

(100) Descend unto the daughter. Gracious lord,

 Stand for your own; unwind your bloody flag;

 Look back into your mighty ancestors:

 Go, my dread lord, to your great-grandsire's tomb,

 From whom you claim; invoke his warlike spirit,

 And your great-uncle's, Edward the Black Prince,

 Who on the French ground play'd a tragedy,

 Making defeat on the full power of France,

 Whiles his most mighty father on a hill

 Stood smiling to behold his lion's whelp

(110) Forage in blood of French nobility.

 O noble English. that could entertain

 With half their forces the full Pride of France

 And let another half stand laughing by,

 All out of work and cold for action!

ELY Awake remembrance of these valiant dead

 And with your puissant arm renew their feats:

 You are their heir; you sit upon their throne;

 The blood and courage that renowned them

 Runs in your veins; and my thrice-puissant liege

(120) Is in the very May-morn of his youth,

 Ripe for exploits and mighty enterprises.

EXETER Your brother kings and monarchs of the earth

 Do all expect that you should rouse yourself,

 As did the former lions of your blood.

WESTMORELAND They know your grace hath cause and means and might;

 So hath your highness; never king of England

 Had nobles richer and more loyal subjects,

 Whose hearts have left their bodies here in England

 And lie pavilion'd in the fields of France.

(130) CANTERBURY O, let their bodies follow, my dear liege,

 With blood and sword and fire to win your right;

 In aid whereof we of the spiritualty

 Will raise your highness such a mighty sum

 As never did the clergy at one time

 Bring in to any of your ancestors.

KING HENRY V We must not only arm to invade the French,

 But lay down our proportions to defend

 Against the Scot, who will make road upon us

 With all advantages.

(140) CANTERBURY They of those marches, gracious sovereign,

 Shall be a wall sufficient to defend

 Our inland from the pilfering borderers.

KING HENRY V We do not mean the coursing snatchers only,

 But fear the main intendment of the Scot,

 Who hath been still a giddy neighbour to us;

 For you shall read that my great-grandfather

 Never went with his forces into France

 But that the Scot on his unfurnish'd kingdom

 Came pouring, like the tide into a breach,

(150) With ample and brim fulness of his force,

 Galling the gleaned land with hot assays,

 Girding with grievous siege castles and towns;

 That England, being empty of defence,

 Hath shook and trembled at the ill neighbourhood.

CANTERBURY She hath been then more fear'd than harm'd, my liege;

 For hear her but exampled by herself:

 When all her chivalry hath been in France

 And she a mourning widow of her nobles,

 She hath herself not only well defended

(160) But taken and impounded as a stray

 The King of Scots; whom she did send to France,

 To fill King Edward's fame with prisoner kings

 And make her chronicle as rich with praise

 As is the ooze and bottom of the sea

 With sunken wreck and sunless treasuries.

WESTMORELAND But there's a saying very old and true,