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The same. Before the gates.
[The Governor and some Citizens on the walls; the English forces below.
Enter KING HENRY and his train]
KING HENRY V
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How yet | resolves | the gov|ernor | of the town?
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This is | the lat|est parle | we will | admit:
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Therefore | to our / best mer|cy give |
yourselves,
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Or like | to men | proud of de|struc|tion,
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Defy us | to our worst:| for as I | am a | soldier,
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A name | that in | my thoughts | becomes | me
best;
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If I | begin | the bat|tery once | again,
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I will | not leave | the half-|achieved |
Harflew,
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Till in her | ashes | she lie | buried.
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The gates | of mer|cy shall be | all shut up,
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And the / fleshed sol|dier, rough | and hard | of
heart,
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In lib|erty | of bloo|dy hand,| shall range
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With con|science wide | as hell,| mowing | like^grass
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Your fresh-fair vir|gins, and your | flowering |
infants.
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What is | it then | to me,| if imp|ious war,
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Arrayed | in flames | like to | the prince | of
fiends,
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Do with his | smirched com|plexion | all fell
feats,
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Enlinked | to waste | and des|ola|tion?
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What is it | to me,| when you | yourselves |
are cause,
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If your / pure maid|ens fall | into | the hand
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Of hot | and for|cing vi|ola|tion?
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What rein | can hold | licen|tious wick|edness,
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When down | the hill | he holds | his fierce |
career?
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We may | as boot|less spend | our vain | command
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Upon | the enrag|ed sol|diers in | their spoil,
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As send | precepts / to the | levi|athan,|| to
come | ashore.
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Therefore,| you men | of Har||flew,
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Take | pity of your | town and | of your |
people,
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Whiles yet | my sol|diers are | in my | command,
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Whiles yet | the cool | and temp|erate wind | of
grace
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Oreblows | the filth|y and | conta|gious clouds
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Of head|ly murd|er, spoil,| and vil|lany.
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If not:| why in | a mo|ment look | to see
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The blind | and bloo|dy sol|dier, with / foul
hand
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Defile | the locks | of your shrill-|shrieking |
daughters:
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Your fath|ers tak|en by | the silv|er beards,
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And their / most reve|rend heads | dashed to |
the walls:
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Your nak|ed in|fants^spit|ted u/pon pikes,
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Whiles the / mad moth|ers, with | their howls |
confused,
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Do break | the clouds;| as did the | wives of |
Jewry,
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At Her|od's bloo|dy-hunt|ing slaught|ermen.
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What say | you? Will | you yield,| and this |
avoid?
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Or guil|ty in | defense,| be thus | destroyed.
GOVERNOR
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Our ex|pecta|tion hath | this day | an end:
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The Dauph|in, whom | of suc|cors we en|treated,
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Returns | us, that his | powers are | yet not |
ready,
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To raise | so great | a siege:| Therefore |
great^king,
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We yield | our town | and lives | to thy soft |
mercy:
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Enter | our gates,| dispose | of us | and ours,
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For we | no long|er are | defens|ible.
KING HENRY V
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Open | your gates:| Come^unc|le Ex|eter,
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Go you | and ent|er Har|flew; there | remain,
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And for|tify | it strong|ly against | the French:
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Use mer/cy to them | all for | us, dear | uncle.
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The wint|er com|ing on,| and sick|ness grow||ing
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Upon | our sol|diers, we | will retire | to
Calais.
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Tonight | in Har|flew we | will be | your guest,
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Tomor|row for | the march | are we | addressed.
[Flourish. The King and his train enter the town]