Whiles that his mountain sire, on mountain standing, The patterns that by God and by French fathers Enter a Messenger MESS. Ambassadors from Harry King of England Do crave admittance to your majesty. FR. KING. We'll give them present audience. and bring them. Go, [Exeunt Messenger and certain Lords. You see this chase is hotly follow'd, friends. 60 DAU. Turn head, and stop pursuit; for coward dogs Most spend their mouths when what they seem to 70 threaten Runs far before them. Good my sovereign, Re-enter Lords, with EXETER and train FR. KING. From our brother England? EXE. From him; and thus he greets your majesty. He wills you, in the name of God Almighty, 57 mountain sire] Thus the Folios. The bold epithet signifies eminence. 70 spend their mouths] bark their loudest. Cf. Venus and Adonis, 695, "Then do they (i. e., hounds) spend their mouths." That you divest yourself, and lay apart Unto the crown of France. That you may know Pick'd from the worm-holes of long-vanish'd days, EXE. Bloody constraint; for if you hide the crown In thunder and in earthquake, like a Jove, 85 sinister] perverse or casuistical. 88 memorable line] commemorative pedigree, pedigree which fully commemorates past history. 90 overlook] look over, examine. 94 indirectly] unjustly. 95 challenger] claimant. 101 requiring] requisition. 100 And bids you, in the bowels of the Lord, Turning the widows' tears, and the orphans' cries, FR. KING. For us, we will consider of this further: Back to our brother England. For the Dauphin, DAU. DAU. Say, if my father render fair return, 124 womby vaultages] hollow places beneath the soil, the subterranean foundations. 126 In second accent of his ordnance] In the echo of his cannon's roar. For ordnance the Folios give the older form ordinance. 110 120 It is against my will; for I desire Nothing but odds with England: to that end, I did present him with the Paris balls. EXE. He'll make your Paris Louvre shake for it, FR. KING. To-morrow shall you know our mind at full. EXE. Dispatch us with all speed, lest that our king Come here himself to question our delay; For he is footed in this land already. FR. KING. You shall be soon dispatch'd with fair conditions: A night is but small breath and little pause To answer matters of this consequence. 143 is footed] has foothold. 145 breath] breathing space. [Flourish. Exeunt. 130 139 wing our swift scene flies In motion of no less celerity The well-appointed king at Embark his royalty; and his With silken streamers the young Play with your fancies, and in Upon the hempen tackle ship-boys climbing; 1 with imagined wing] with the wing of imagination. Cf. I, Prol., 18, "imaginary forces." 4 Hampton] Southampton. Theobald's correction of the Folio reading Dover. |