ry and of Bretagne,
Of Brabant and of Orleans, shall make forth,--
And you, Prince Dauphin,--with all swift despatch,
To line and new repair our towns of war
With men of courage and with means defendant.

_Dau._ (R.C.) My most redoubted father,
It is most meet we arm us 'gainst the foe:
And let us do it with no show of fear;
No, with no more than if we heard that England
Were busied with a Whitsun morris-dance:
For, my good liege, she is so idly king'd,
Her sceptre so fantastically borne
By a vain, giddy, shallow, humorous youth,
That fear attends her not.

_Con._ (L.C.) O peace, prince Dauphin
You are too much mistaken in this king:
With what great state he heard our embassy,
How well supplied with noble counsellors,
How modest in exception,[17] and withal
How terrible in constant resolution,
And you shall find his vanities fore-spent
Were but the outside of the Roman Brutus,
Covering discretion with a coat of folly.

_Dau._ Well, 'tis not so, my lord high constable;
But though we think it so, it is no matter:
In cases of defence 'tis best to weigh
The enemy more mighty than he seems:
So the proportions of defence are fill'd.

_Fr. King._ Think we King Harry strong;
And, princes, look you strongly arm to meet him.
The kindred of him hath been flesh'd upon us;
And he is bred out of that bloody strain[18]
That haunted us[19] in our familiar paths:
Witness our too much memorable shame
When Cressy battle fatally was struck,
And all our princes captiv'd by the hand
Of that black name, Edward, black prince of Wales;
Whiles that his mountain sire,--on mountain standing,
Up in the air, crown'd with the golden sun,--[20]
Saw his heroical seed, and smil'd to see him
Mangle the work of nature, and deface
The patterns that by Heaven and by French fathers
Had twenty years been made. This is a stem
Of that victorious stock; and let us fear
The native mightiness and fate of him.[21]

_Enter MONTJOY,[22] L.H., and kneels C. to the KING._

_Mont._ Ambassadors from Henry King of England
Do crave admittance to your majesty.

_Fr. King._ We'll give them present audience.

(_MONTJOY rises from his knee._)

Go, and bring them.

[_Exeunt MONTJOY, and certain LORDS, L.H._

You see this chase is hotly follow'd, friends.

_Dau._ Turn head, and stop pursuit; for co