asuring what use we made of them.
But tell the Dauphin,--I will keep my state;
Be like a king, and show my soul of greatness,
When I do rouse me in my throne of France:
For I will rise there with so full a glory,
That I will dazzle all the eyes of France,
Yea, strike the Dauphin blind to look on us.
But this lies all within the will of Heaven,
To whom I do appeal; And in whose name,
Tell you the Dauphin, I am coming on,
To venge me as I may, and to put forth
My rightful hand in a well-hallow'd cause.
So, get you hence in peace; and tell the Dauphin,
His jest will savour but of shallow wit,
When thousands weep, more than did laugh at it.--
Convey them with safe conduct.--Fare you well.

[_Exeunt AMBASSADOR, and Attendants, L.H._

_Exe._ This was a merry message.

_K. Hen._ We hope to make the sender blush at it.

[_The KING rises._

Therefore, my lords, omit no happy hour
That may give furtherance to our expedition;
For we have now no thought in us but France,
Save those to Heaven, that run before our business.
Therefore let our proportions for these wars
Be soon collected, and all things thought upon
That may with reasonable swiftness add
More feathers to our wings; for, Heaven before,
We'll chide this Dauphin at his father's door.

[_The characters group round the KING._

_Trumpets sound._

[Footnote I.1: _----task_] Keep busied with scruples and
disquisitions.]

[Footnote I.2: _Archbishop of Canterbury,_] Henry Chichely,
a Carthusian monk, recently promoted to the see of Canterbury.]

[Footnote I.3: _Bishop of Ely._] John Fordham, consecrated 1388;
died, 1426.]

[Footnote I.4: _----wrest_,] i.e., distort.]

[Footnote I.5: _----or bow your reading_,] i.e., bend your
interpretation.]

[Footnote I.6: _Or nicely charge your understanding soul_] Take
heed, lest by nice and subtle sophistry you burthen your knowing
soul, or _knowingly burthen your soul_, with the guilt of
advancing a false title, or of maintaining, by specious fallacies,
a claim which, if shown in its native and true colours, would
appear to be false. --JOHNSON.]

[Footnote I.7: _----miscreate_,] Ill-begotten, illegitimate,
spurious.]

[Footnote I.8: _----in approbation_] i.e., in proving and
supporting that title which shall be now set up.]

[Footnote I.9: _----impawn our person_,