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Henry VI, Part I
[I, 1] |
Duke of Bedford |
48 |
Cease, cease these jars and rest your minds in peace:
Let's to the altar: heralds, wait on us:
Instead of gold, we'll offer up our arms:
Since arms avail not now that Henry's dead.
Posterity, await for wretched years,
When at their mothers' moist eyes babes shall suck,
Our isle be made a nourish of salt tears,
And none but women left to wail the dead.
Henry the Fifth, thy ghost I invocate:
Prosper this realm, keep it from civil broils,
Combat with adverse planets in the heavens!
A far more glorious star thy soul will make
Than Julius Caesar or bright—
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2 |
Henry VI, Part I
[I, 1] |
Duke of Bedford |
89 |
Me they concern; Regent I am of France.
Give me my steeled coat. I'll fight for France.
Away with these disgraceful wailing robes!
Wounds will I lend the French instead of eyes,
To weep their intermissive miseries.
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3 |
Henry VI, Part I
[I, 1] |
Duke of Gloucester |
104 |
We will not fly, but to our enemies' throats.
Bedford, if thou be slack, I'll fight it out.
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4 |
Henry VI, Part I
[I, 1] |
Messenger |
115 |
O, no; wherein Lord Talbot was o'erthrown:
The circumstance I'll tell you more at large.
The tenth of August last this dreadful lord,
Retiring from the siege of Orleans,
Having full scarce six thousand in his troop.
By three and twenty thousand of the French
Was round encompassed and set upon.
No leisure had he to enrank his men;
He wanted pikes to set before his archers;
Instead whereof sharp stakes pluck'd out of hedges
They pitched in the ground confusedly,
To keep the horsemen off from breaking in.
More than three hours the fight continued;
Where valiant Talbot above human thought
Enacted wonders with his sword and lance:
Hundreds he sent to hell, and none durst stand him;
Here, there, and every where, enraged he flew:
The French exclaim'd, the devil was in arms;
All the whole army stood agazed on him:
His soldiers spying his undaunted spirit
A Talbot! a Talbot! cried out amain
And rush'd into the bowels of the battle.
Here had the conquest fully been seal'd up,
If Sir John Fastolfe had not play'd the coward:
He, being in the vaward, placed behind
With purpose to relieve and follow them,
Cowardly fled, not having struck one stroke.
Hence grew the general wreck and massacre;
Enclosed were they with their enemies:
A base Walloon, to win the Dauphin's grace,
Thrust Talbot with a spear into the back,
Whom all France with their chief assembled strength
Durst not presume to look once in the face.
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5 |
Henry VI, Part I
[I, 1] |
Duke of Bedford |
155 |
His ransom there is none but I shall pay:
I'll hale the Dauphin headlong from his throne:
His crown shall be the ransom of my friend;
Four of their lords I'll change for one of ours.
Farewell, my masters; to my task will I;
Bonfires in France forthwith I am to make,
To keep our great Saint George's feast withal:
Ten thousand soldiers with me I will take,
Whose bloody deeds shall make all Europe quake.
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6 |
Henry VI, Part I
[I, 1] |
Duke of Gloucester |
175 |
I'll to the Tower with all the haste I can,
To view the artillery and munition;
And then I will proclaim young Henry king.
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7 |
Henry VI, Part I
[I, 1] |
Duke of Exeter |
179 |
To Eltham will I, where the young king is,
Being ordain'd his special governor,
And for his safety there I'll best devise.
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8 |
Henry VI, Part I
[I, 2] |
Charles, King of France |
230 |
Let's leave this town; for they are hare-brain'd slaves,
And hunger will enforce them to be more eager:
Of old I know them; rather with their teeth
The walls they'll tear down than forsake the siege.
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9 |
Henry VI, Part I
[I, 2] |
Reignier |
234 |
I think, by some odd gimmors or device
Their arms are set like clocks, stiff to strike on;
Else ne'er could they hold out so as they do.
By my consent, we'll even let them alone.
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10 |
Henry VI, Part I
[I, 2] |
Charles, King of France |
290 |
Thou hast astonish'd me with thy high terms:
Only this proof I'll of thy valour make,
In single combat thou shalt buckle with me,
And if thou vanquishest, thy words are true;
Otherwise I renounce all confidence.
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11 |
Henry VI, Part I
[I, 2] |
Joan la Pucelle |
301 |
And while I live, I'll ne'er fly from a man.
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12 |
Henry VI, Part I
[I, 2] |
Charles, King of France |
327 |
What she says I'll confirm: we'll fight it out.
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13 |
Henry VI, Part I
[I, 2] |
Joan la Pucelle |
328 |
Assign'd am I to be the English scourge.
This night the siege assuredly I'll raise:
Expect Saint Martin's summer, halcyon days,
Since I have entered into these wars.
Glory is like a circle in the water,
Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself
Till by broad spreading it disperse to nought.
With Henry's death the English circle ends;
Dispersed are the glories it included.
Now am I like that proud insulting ship
Which Caesar and his fortune bare at once.
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14 |
Henry VI, Part I
[I, 2] |
Charles, King of France |
348 |
Presently we'll try: come, let's away about it:
No prophet will I trust, if she prove false.
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15 |
Henry VI, Part I
[I, 3] |
Duke of Gloucester |
362 |
Who willed you? or whose will stands but mine?
There's none protector of the realm but I.
Break up the gates, I'll be your warrantize.
Shall I be flouted thus by dunghill grooms?
[Gloucester's men rush at the Tower Gates, and]
WOODVILE the Lieutenant speaks within]
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Henry VI, Part I
[I, 3] |
Duke of Gloucester |
375 |
Faint-hearted Woodvile, prizest him 'fore me?
Arrogant Winchester, that haughty prelate,
Whom Henry, our late sovereign, ne'er could brook?
Thou art no friend to God or to the king:
Open the gates, or I'll shut thee out shortly.
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Henry VI, Part I
[I, 3] |
Serving-Men |
380 |
Open the gates unto the lord protector,
Or we'll burst them open, if that you come not quickly.
[Enter to the Protector at the Tower Gates BISHOP]
OF WINCHESTER and his men in tawny coats]
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Henry VI, Part I
[I, 3] |
Duke of Gloucester |
388 |
Stand back, thou manifest conspirator,
Thou that contrivedst to murder our dead lord;
Thou that givest whores indulgences to sin:
I'll canvass thee in thy broad cardinal's hat,
If thou proceed in this thy insolence.
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Henry VI, Part I
[I, 3] |
Duke of Gloucester |
396 |
I will not slay thee, but I'll drive thee back:
Thy scarlet robes as a child's bearing-cloth
I'll use to carry thee out of this place.
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Henry VI, Part I
[I, 3] |
Duke of Gloucester |
400 |
What! am I dared and bearded to my face?
Draw, men, for all this privileged place;
Blue coats to tawny coats. Priest, beware your beard,
I mean to tug it and to cuff you soundly:
Under my feet I stamp thy cardinal's hat:
In spite of pope or dignities of church,
Here by the cheeks I'll drag thee up and down.
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