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Southampton. A council-chamber.
[Enter EXETER, BEDFORD, and WESTMORELAND]
BEDFORD
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Fore God | his grace | is bold | to trust | these
trait||ors.
EXETER
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They | shall be ap|prehend|ed by | and by.
WESTMORELAND
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How smooth | and ev|en they | do bear |
themselves,
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As if | alleg|iance in | their bos|oms sat
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Crowned | with faith,| and const|ant loy|alty.
BEDFORD
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The king | hath note | of all | that they |
intend,
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By int|ercep|tion, which | they dream | not of.
EXETER
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Nay, but | the man | that was | his bed|fellow,
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Whom he hath | dulled and | cloyed with |
gracious | favors;
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That he | should for | a for|eign purse,| so sell
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His sove|reign's life | to death | and
treach|ery.
[Trumpets sound. Enter KING HENRY V, SCROOP, CAMBRIDGE, GREY, and
Attendants]
KING HENRY V
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Now sits the wind | fair, and | we will |
aboard.
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My Lord | of Cam|bridge*, and my / kind Lord | of
Masham,
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And you | my gent|le knight,| give me | your
thoughts:
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Think you | not that | the powers | we bear |
with us
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Will cut | their pas|sage through | the force |
of France?
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Doing | the ex|ecu|tion, and | the act,
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For which | we have | in head | assem|bled them.
SCROOP
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No doubt | my liege,| if each | man do | his
best.
KING HENRY V
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I doubt | not^that,| since we are | well
per|suaded
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We car|ry not | a heart | with us | from hence,
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That grows | not in | a fair | consent | with
ours:
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Nor leave | not^one | behind,| that doth | not
wish
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Success | and con|quest to | attend | on us.
CAMBRIDGE
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Never | was mon|arch bet|ter feared | and loved,
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Than is | your maj|esty;| there's^not | I think |
a sub||ject*
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That sits | in heart-grief and | uneas|iness
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Under | the sweet | shade of | your gov|ernment.
GREY
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True: those / that were | your fath|er's
en|emies,
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Have steeped | their galls | in hon|ey, and | do
serve || you
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With hearts | create | of du|ty, and | of zeal.
KING HENRY V
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We there|fore have / great cause | of
thank|fulness,
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And shall | forget | the of|fice of | our hand
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Sooner than | quittance | of de|sert and | merit,
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Accord|ing to | the weight | and worth|iness.
SCROOP
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So serv|ice shall | with steel|ed sin|ews toil,
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And lab|or shall | refresh | itself | with hope
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To do | your grace | inces|sant serv|ices.
KING HENRY V
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We judge | no less.| Uncle | of Ex|eter,
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Enlarge | the man | commit|ted yest|erday,
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That railed | against | our person:| we con|sider
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It was | excess | of wine | that set | him on,
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And on | his more | advice,| we pard|on him.
SCROOP
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That's mer|cy, but / too much | secur|ity:
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Let him be | punished | sovereign,| lest ex|ample
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Breed (by | his suf|ferance) more | of such | a
kind.
KING HENRY V
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O let | us yet | be mer|ciful.|
CAMBRIDGE
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So may | your high|ness, and / yet pun|ish
too.
GREY
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Sir, you | show great mer|cy, if | you give ||
him life,
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After | the taste | of much | correc||tion.
KING HENRY V
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Alas,| your too | much^love | and care | of me
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Are hea|vy or|isons against | this poor wretch:
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If little | faults pro|ceeding | on dis|temper,
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Shall not | be winked | at, how | shall we
stretch | our eye
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When cap|ital crimes,| chewed, swal/lowed, and
di|gested,
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Appear | before us?| We'll yet | enlarge | that
man,
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Though Cam|bridge*, Scroop,| and Grey,| in their
/ dear care
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And tend|er pre|serva|tion of | our person
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Would have | him pun|ished.| And now | to our
French || causes,
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Who are | the late | commis|sioners?
CAMBRIDGE
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I one | my lord, \\
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Your high|ness bade | me ask | for it | today.
SCROOP
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So did | you me | my liege. \\
GREY
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And I | my roy|al sov|ereign.|
KING HENRY V
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Then Rich|ard Earl | of Cam|bridge, there | is
yours:
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There yours | Lord Scroop | of Mash|am, and | sir
knight:
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Grey of | Northum|berland,| this same | is yours:
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Read them,| and know | I know | your worth|iness.
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My Lord | of Westmore|land, and | uncle |
Exeter*,
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We will a|board to|night. Why | how now |
gentlemen?
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What see | you in | those pap|ers, that | you lose
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So much | complex|ion? Look | ye how | they
change:
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Their cheeks | are pap|er. Why,| what read | you
there,
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That hath | so cow|arded | and chased | your
blood
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Out of | appear|ance.
CAMBRIDGE
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I do | confess | my fault,
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And do | submit | me to your | highness'|
mercy.
GREY SCROOP
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To which | we all | appeal. \\
KING HENRY V
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The mer|cy that | was quick | in us | but late,
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By your / own couns|el is | suppressed | and
killed:
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You must not | dare (for | shame) to | talk of
| mercy.
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For your own | reasons | turn in|to your
| bosoms,
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As dogs | upon | their mast|ers, wor|rying you:
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See you | my prin|ces, and | my nob|le peers,
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These Eng|lish monst|ers: My Lord | of
Cam|bridge* here,
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You know | how apt | our love | was, to | accord
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To furn|ish him | with all | appert|inents
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Belong|ing to | his hon|or; and | this man,
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Hath for a | few light crowns,| lightly |
conspired
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And sworn | unto | the prac|tices | of France
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To kill | us here | in Hamp|ton. To | the which,
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This knight | no less | for bounty | bound | to
us
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Than Cam|bridge is,| hath like|wise sworn.| But
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What shall | I say | to thee | Lord Scroop,| thou
cruel,
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Ingrate|ful, sav|age, and in|human | creature?
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Thou that didst | bear the | key of | all my |
counsels,
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That knewst | the ve|ry bot|tom of | my soul,
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That (al|most) mightst | have coined | me in|to
gold,
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Wouldst thou | have prac|ticed on | me, for | thy
use?
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May it | be pos|sible,| that for|eign hire
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Could out | of thee | extract | one spark of evil
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That might | annoy | my fing|er? 'Tis | so
strange,
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That though | the truth | of it / stands off | as
gross
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As black | and white,| my eye | will scarce|ly
see it.
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Treason,| and murd|er, ever | kept to|gether,
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As two yoke-devils | sworn to | either's |
purpose,
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Working | so gross|ly in | a na|tural cause,
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That ad|mira|tion did | not whoop | at them.
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But thou, |(gainst^all | propor|tion, didst |
bring in
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Wonder to | wait on | treason,| and on | murder:
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And what|soev|er cun|ning fiend | it was
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That wrought | upon | thee so | prepost|erously,
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Hath got | the voice | in hell | for ex|cellence:
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All^oth|er dev|ils that | suggest | by
treas||ons,
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Do | botch and | bungle | up damn|ation,
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With patch|es, col|ors, and | with forms | being
fetched
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From glist|ering sem|blances | of pi|ety:
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But he | that temp|ered thee,| bade thee |
stand^up,
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Gave thee no | instance | why thou | shouldst do
| treason,
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Unless | to dub | thee with the | name of |
traitor.
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If that / same de|mon that | hath gulled | thee
thus,
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Should with | his li|on gait | walk the whole
world,
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He might | return | to vas|ty Tar|tar back,
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And tell | the leg|ions, I | can nev|er win
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A soul | so ea|sy as / that Eng|lishman's.
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Oh, how*| hast thou | with jeal|ousy | infect||ed
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The sweet|ness of af|fiance? Show | men dut/iful,
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Why so | didst thou:| Seem they | grave and |
learned?
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Why so | didst thou.| Come they of | noble |
family?
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Why so | didst thou.| Seem they | relig|ious?
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Why so | didst thou.| Or are | they spare | in
diet,
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Free from | gross pas/sion, or of | mirth, or |
anger,
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Constant | in spirit,| not swerv/ing with | the
blood,
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Garnished | and decked | in mod|est com|plement,
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Not* work|ing with | the eye,| without | the ear,
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And but | in purged | judgment | trusting |
neither,
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Such and | so fine|ly bolt|ed didst | thou seem:
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And thus | thy fall | hath left | a kind | of
blot,
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To make | thee full-|fraught man, and best |
indued
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With some | suspi|cion, I | will weep | for thee.
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For this | revolt | of thine,| methinks | is like
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Anoth|er fall | of man.| Their faults | are open,
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Arrest | them to | the ans|wer of | the law,
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And God | acquit | them of | their prac|tices.
EXETER
I arrest thee of high treason, by the name of Richard Earl of Cambridge.
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arrest thee of high treason, by the name of Henry Lord Scroop of Masham.
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arrest thee of high treason, by the name of Thomas Grey, knight, of
Northumberland.
SCROOP
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Our pur|poses,| God just/ly hath | discov||ered,
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And | I repent | my fault | more than | my death,
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Which I | beseech | your high|ness to | forgive,
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Although | my bo|dy pay | the price | of it.
CAMBRIDGE
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For me,| the gold | of France | did not | seduce,
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Although | I did | admit | it as | a mot|ive,
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The soon|er to | effect | what I | intend|ed:
(hex with prev)
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But God | be thank|ed for | preven|tion,
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Which I | in suf|ferance heart|ily will |
rejoice,
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Beseech|ing God,| and you,| to pard|on me.
GREY
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Never | did faith|ful sub|ject more | rejoice
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At the di|scovery | of most | dangerous | treason,
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Than I | do at | this hour | joy^ore | myself,
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Prevent|ed from | a damn|ed ent|erprise:
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My fault,| but not | my bo|dy, pard|on
sove||reign.
KING HENRY V
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God | quit you in his | mercy:| Hear your |
sentence.
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You have con|spired a|gainst our | royal |
person,
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Joined with an | enemy*| proclaimed,| and from
his | coffers,
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Received | the gold|en earn|est of | our death:
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Wherein | you would have | sold your | king to |
slaughter,
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His prin|ces, and | his peers | to serv|itude,
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His sub|jects to | oppres|sion, and | contempt,
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And his whole | kingdom | into | deso|lation:
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Touching | our pers|on, seek | we no | revenge,
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But we | our king|dom's safe|ty must so | tender,
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Whose ru|in you | have sought,| that to | her
laws
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We do | deliv|er you. Get | you there|fore hence,
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(Poor mis/era|ble wretch|es) to | your death:
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The taste | whereof,| God of | his mer|cy give
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You pa|tience to | endure,| and true |
repent||ance
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Of all | your dear | offens|es. Bear | them
hence.
[Exeunt CAMBRIDGE, SCROOP and GREY, guarded]
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Now lords | for France:| the ent|erprise |
whereof
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Shall be | to you | as us,| like glor/ious.
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We doubt | not of | a fair | and luck|y war,
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Since^God | so gra|ciously | hath brought | to
light
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This dang|erous treas|on, lurk|ing in | our way,
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To hind|er our | begin|nings. We / doubt not now,
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But eve|ry rub | is smooth|ed on | our way.
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Then forth,| dear count|rymen:| let us de|liver
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Our puissance | into | the hand | of God,
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Putting | it straight | in ex|pedi|tion.
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Cheerly | to sea,| the signs | of war | advance,
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No king | of Eng|land, if | not king | of France.
[Exeunt]