Duke of Exeter, Uncle to the King. Duke of York, Cousin to the King. Earls of Salisbury, Westmoreland, and Warwick. Bishop of Ely. Earl of Cambridge, LORD SCROOP, SIR THOMAS GREY, ·Conspirators against the King. SIR THOMAS ERPINGHAM, GOWER, FLUELLEN, MACMORRIS, JAMY, Officers in King Henry's Army. BATES, COURT, WILLIAMS, Soldiers in the same. NYM, BARDOLPH, PISTOL, formerly Servants to Falstaff, now Soldiers in the same. Boy, Servant to them. A Herald. Chorus. CHARLES THE SIXTH, King of France. LEWIS, the Dauphin. Dukes of Burgundy, Orleans, and Bourbon. The Constable of France. RAMBURES and GRANDPREE, French Lords. Governor of Harfleur. MONTJOY, a French Herald. Ambassadors to the King of England. ISABEL, Queen of France. KATHARINE, Daughter of Charles and Isabel. QUICKLY, Pistol's Wife, an Hostess. Lords, Ladies, Officers, French and English Soldiers, Messengers, and Attendants. The SCENE, at the beginning of the Play, lies in England; but afterwards wholly in France. Enter CHORUS. O, FOR a muse of fire, that would ascend A kingdom for a stage, princes to act, Crouch for employment. But pardon, gentles all, 1 • Within this wooden O, the very casques.' O for circle, alluding to the circular form of the theatre. The very casques does not mean the identical casques, but the casques alone, or merely the casques. Thus in The Taming of the Shrew, Katharine says to Grumio : Thou false deluding slave, That feedest me with the very name of meat.' i. e. the name only of meat. 2 Imaginary forces.' Imaginary for imaginative, or your powers of fancy. The active and passive are often confounded by old writers. Are now confin'd two mighty monarchies, And make imaginary puissance : Think, when we talk of horses, that you see them Who, prologue like, your humble patience pray KING HENRY V. ACT I. SCENE I. London1. An Antechamber in the Enter the Archbishop of Canterbury, and Bishop of My lord, I'll tell you, that self bill is urg'd, Ely. But how, my lord, shall we resist it now?' 1 This first scene was added in the folio, together with the choruses, and other amplifications. It appears from Hall and Holinshed that the events passed at Leicester, where King Henry V. held a parliament in the second year of his reign. But the chorus at the beginning of the second act shows that the poet intended to make London the place of his first scene. ་ 2 Canterbury and Ely.' Henry Chicheley, a Carthusian monk, recently promoted to the see of Canterbury. John Fordham, bishop of Ely, consecrated 1388, died 1426. 3 i. e. scrambling. Vide note on Much Ado About Nothing, Act v. Sc. 1, p. 198. + Question is debate. VOL. V. M M Would they strip from us: being valued thus,- Of indigent faint souls, past corporal toil, A thousand pounds by the year: Thus runs the bill. Cant. "Twould drink the cup and all. Ely. But what prevention? Cant. The king is full of grace, and fair regard. Ely. And a true lover of the holy church. Cant. The courses of his youth promis'd it not. And whipp'd the offending Adam out of him: To envelop and contain celestial spirits. With such a heady current, scouring faults; So soon did lose his seat, and all at once, We are blessed in the change. Ely. 5 'The breath no sooner left his father's body, Seem'd to die too.' The same thought occurs in the preceding play, where King |